Following an adjustment to immigration rules announced by the
Home Office on
recipient of an elite award, you may now be eligible to
bypass part of the existing immigration process and
access a fast-track route into the U.K.
What Is the Existing Process?
As a leader or potential leader in arts and culture, academia, research or digital technology, under the U.K.’s post-Brexit points-based immigration system, you can apply for a Global Talent visa to live and work in the U.K. for five-year periods. This route requires a successful application to one of the six endorsing bodies with responsibility over your field (Arts Council England, the British Academy, Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering, Tech Nation and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)). However, if you hold a prize from a certain category of prestigious awards, you can now bypass the endorsement stage of the Global Talent visa route and go directly to the visa stage, moving towards a single and more streamlin
Glenn Close at the Oscars in 2019 HARD cheese Glenn Close. You may be one of the world’s greatest actors, but you’ve never won an Oscar. You’re not getting in, I’m afraid. What’s that, Sigourney Weaver? You’ve been nominated for three Oscars. Didn’t win any, though, did you? Sorry, back of the line. The news this week that winners of Oscars, Grammys or the Nobel prize can be fast-tracked through the UK immigration system was hailed by the Home Secretary Priti Patel as an example of how the “best and brightest” in arts and the sciences could come to the UK under a new points-based immigration system.
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Zellweger, DiCaprio, Beyonce among stars given VIP status under new UK points-based immigration system
Bridget Jones is on a list of international celebrities granted VIP status under the government s new points-based immigration system. V good, she would write in her diary.
Renee Zellweger, the Texan actress who played the 30-something singleton who cooked blue soup, wore enormous pants and drank and smoked too much, tops the list.
She is included on a new Global Talent visa route as an Oscar winner, along with Legally Blonde star Reese Witherspoon and Susan Sarandon, best known for the smash hit Thelma And Louise.
Bridget Jones is on a list of international celebrities granted VIP status under the government's new points-based immigration system. V good, she would write in her diary.