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GAE 1.1. A person applying for entry clearance or permission to stay on the Government Authorised Exchange route must apply online on gov.uk on the specified form Temporary Work Government Authorised Exchange Scheme.

1. GAE 1.2. An application for entry clearance or permission to stay on the Government Authorised Exchange route must meet all the following requirements:
   1. (a) any fee and Immigration Health Charge must have been paid; and
   2. (b) the applicant must have provided any required biometrics; and
   3. (c) the applicant must have provided a passport or other travel document which satisfactorily establishes their identity and nationality; and
   4. (d) the applicant must have a Certificate of Sponsorship that was issued to them no more than 3 months before the date of application.

GAE 1.3. If the applicant has in the last 12 months before the date of application received an award from a Government or international scholarship agency covering both fees and maintenance, they must provide written consent to the application from that Government or agency.

GAE 1.4. An application which does not meet all the validity requirements for the Government Authorised Exchange route is invalid and may be rejected and not considered.

GAE 2.1. The applicant must not fall for refusal under Part 9: grounds for refusal.

1. GAE 2.2. If applying for permission to stay the applicant must not be:
   1. (a) in breach of immigration laws, except that where paragraph 39E applies, that period of overstaying will be disregarded; or
   2. (b) on immigration bail.

Entry requirements for the Government Authorised Exchange route

GAE 3.1. A person seeking to come to the UK on the Government Authorised Exchange route must have applied for and obtained entry clearance on the Government Authorised Exchange route before they arrive in the UK.

GAE 3.2. A person applying for entry clearance on the Government Authorised Exchange route must, if paragraph A39 and Appendix T of these rules apply, provide a valid medical certificate confirming that they have undergone screening for active pulmonary tuberculosis and that this tuberculosis is not present in them.

Previous permission requirement for the Government Authorised Exchange route

1. GAE 4.1. An applicant who is applying for permission to stay must be in the UK on the date of application and must have, or have last been granted:
   1. (a) permission on the Government Authorised Exchange route; or
   2. (b) permission as a Student, who meets the requirements in GAE 4.2. and who is or was last sponsored by either:
      1. (i) a higher education provider with a track record of compliance; or
      2. (ii) an overseas higher education institution, to do a short-term study abroad programme in the UK.

1. GAE 4.2. Where the applicant has, or last had, permission as a Student:
   1. (a) the applicant must have completed a UK recognised bachelors or postgraduate degree during that last period of permission; and
   2. (b) the applicant must currently be sponsored for either:
      1. (i) a period of postgraduate professional training or work experience which is required to gain a professional qualification or registration in the same field as their degree; or
      2. (ii) an internship for up to 12 months which is directly related to their degree; and
   3. (c) the applicant must not be filling a permanent vacancy; and
   4. (d) the sponsor must not intend to employ the applicant in the UK once the training or work experience is completed.

Sponsorship requirement for the Government Authorised Exchange route

1. GAE 5.1. The applicant must have a valid Certificate of Sponsorship for the job they are planning to do; which to be valid must:
   1. (a) confirm the applicants name, that they are being sponsored on the Government Authorised Exchange route, details of the job and salary the sponsor is offering them, and that these arrangements comply with the National Minimum Wage; and
   2. (b) include a start date, stated by the sponsor, which is no more than three months after the date of application; and
   3. (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
   4. (d) not have been withdrawn by the sponsor or cancelled by the Home Office; and
   5. (e) confirm that the role meets the requirements of the individual exchange scheme as set out in Appendix GAE schemes; and
   6. (f) confirm that the role does not fill a vacancy in the workforce; and
   7. (g) confirm that the role appears in Table 1 or Table 2 of Appendix Skilled Occupations; and
   8. (h) confirm whether the Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS) requirement in Appendix ATAS applies.

GAE 5.2. The sponsor must be authorised by the Home Office to sponsor individuals in the role specified on the Certificate of Sponsorship and on the particular scheme that the applicant has applied to participate in (as set out in Appen

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