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The Temporary Work - Creative Worker route is for a person who wants to come to the UK to work within the creative sector.
A Creative Worker is someone who can make a unique contribution to the UKs rich cultural life, for example, as an artist, dancer, musician or entertainer, or as a model contributing to the UKs fashion industry.
A person can be granted permission for up to 12 months initially and can apply to extend their stay up to a maximum of two years if they are still working for the same sponsor.
A partner and children can apply as dependants on this route.
The Creative Worker route is not a route to settlement.
CRV 1.1. A person applying for entry clearance or permission to stay as a Creative Worker must apply online on gov.uk on the specified form as follows:
| Applicant | Specified form |
|---|---|
| EEA national with a chipped passport | Either: Temporary Worker using the UK Immigration: ID Check app; or the forms listed below for applicants outside or inside the UK (as relevant) |
| Applicants outside the UK | Temporary Worker visa |
| Applicants inside the UK | Temporary Worker |
- CRV 1.2. An application for entry clearance or permission to stay as a Creative Worker must meet all the following requirements:
- (a) any fee and Immigration Health Charge must have been paid; and
- (b) the applicant must have provided any required biometrics; and
- (c) the applicant must have provided a passport or other travel document which satisfactorily establishes their identity and nationality; and
- (d) the applicant must have a Certificate of Sponsorship that was issued to them no more than three months before the date of application.
CRV 1.3. An applicant who is applying for permission to stay must be in the UK and have, or have last had, entry clearance or permission to stay as a Creative Worker.
CRV 1.4. An application which does not meet all the validity requirements for a Creative Worker may be rejected as invalid and not considered.
CRV 2.1. The applicant must not fall for refusal under Part 9: grounds for refusal.
- CRV 2.2. If applying for permission to stay the applicant must not be:
- (a) in breach of immigration laws, except that where paragraph 39E applies, that period of overstaying will be disregarded; or
- (b) on immigration bail.
Entry requirements for a Creative Worker
CRV 3.1. A person seeking to come to the UK as a Creative Worker must have applied for and obtained entry clearance as a Creative Worker before they arrive in the UK, except where CRV 3.2. applies.
- CRV 3.2. A person arriving in the UK who is seeking entry as a Creative Worker and does not have a valid entry clearance on that route may be granted permission to enter if the following requirements are met:
- (a) the applicant is not a visa national; and
- (aa) has, where required under Appendix Electronic Travel Authorisation, obtained an Electronic Travel Authorisation before travelling to the UK.; and
- (b) the applicant has a valid Certificate of Sponsorship from an approved sponsor for the Creative Worker route; and
- (c) if the applicant has consecutive engagements, the total length of all the periods of engagement, together with any gap between those engagements, is three months or less; and
- (d) if the applicant does not have consecutive engagements, the total length of the period of engagement is three months or less; and
- (e) the person otherwise meets the requirements to be granted permission as a Creative Worker.
CRV 3.3. A person applying for entry clearance as a Creative Worker must, if Appendix Tuberculosis applies, provide a valid medical certificate confirming that they have undergone screening for active pulmonary tuberculosis and that this tuberculosis is not present in them.
- CRV 4.1. The applicant must have a valid Certificate of Sponsorship for the job they are planning to do; which to be valid must:
- (a) confirm the applicants name, that they are being sponsored as a Creative Worker, and details of the job and pay the sponsor is offering them confirming that these arrangements comply with the National Minimum Wage; and
- (b) include a start date, stated by the sponsor, which is no more than 3 months after the date of application; and
- (c) not have been used in a previous application which was either granted or refused (but can have been used in a previous application which was rejected as invalid, made void or withdrawn); and
- (d) not have been withdrawn by the sponsor or cancelled by the Home Office; and
- (e) confirm that the ro
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