You need all of the following to send your Start-up visa application to the Home Office:

1. A viable, scalable and innovative business proposition for the UK

• Viability
  • The applicant has, or is actively developing, the necessary skills, knowledge, experience and market awareness to successfully run the business

  • From 4th June 2020, the 'viability' criteria also includes “a realistic and achievable business plan based on the applicant’s available resources”.

• Innovation
  • The applicant has a genuine, original business plan that meets new or existing market needs and/or creates a competitive advantage.
• Scalability
  • • There is evidence of structured planning and of potential for job creation and growth into national markets

2. A UK-recognised bachelor’s degree, master’s degree or PhD (conferred by Senate) from the University of Warwick before your date of endorsement

3. Endorsement from an authorised UK higher education institution issued in the past 3 months

4. Maintenance funds of £1,270 in savings if applying from inside the UK or outside the UK. You must have had held the funds in your bank account for a consecutive 28 day period before you can apply and meet this financial requirement. The following additional funds are required for dependants:

• £285 is required for a dependant partner
• £315 for a first child
• £200 for each subsequent child

5. Meet the English language requirement.

6. Permission to remain in the UK if a government or an international scholarship agency has paid your course fees and living costs in the past 12 months.

7. Must not have previously established a business in the UK .

You cannot apply with any of the following:

• Foundation degrees
• Honorary degrees
• Qualifications awarded in the UK by overseas awarding bodies
• Qualifications undertaken at overseas campuses of UK institutions
• Professional and vocational qualifications
• Postgraduate certificates or diplomas

A person applying for permission to stay must not have, or have last been granted permission:

• as a Visitor; or
• as a Short-term Student; or
• as a Parent of a Child Student; or
• as a Seasonal Worker; or
• as a domestic worker in a private household; or
• outside the Immigration Rules.

*Please note if you have not yet completed your degree programme when you apply for endorsement under this scheme and your application is successful - then the endorsement will be conditional on successful completion of your degree programme.