Visiting the UK This page explains the types of visitor and what you are allowed to do as a visitor to the United Kingdom. If you have plans to stay longer than six months you need to look at the working in the UK page of this website. To visit the United Kingdom as a visitor you must be able to convince ECO that you: Only want to visit the United Kingdom for up to six months Plan to leave the United Kingdom at the end of your visit Have enough money to support and accommodate yourself without working, obtaining help from public funds and will be supported and accommodated by relatives or friends Do not intend to charge members of the public for services provided or goods received Do not intend to study Can meet the cost of the return or onward journey. If you want to do business during your visit you also have to show that you: Normally live and work abroad and you have no plans to base yourself in the United Kingdom Do not plan to work, produce goods or provide services in the United Kingdom What you are allowed to do as a visitor to the United Kingdom As a visitor to the United Kingdom you can do business while you are there if it is directly linked to your employment or business in India. You are not allowed work for which you would need a work permit. You should receive your salary from Indian employer, but you can receive reasonable travel and living expenses from sources in the United Kingdom. As a visitor wishing to do business you can: go to meetings with United Kingdom businesses or negotiate and enter into contracts with them go to trade fairs, conferences or undertake training in techniques and work practices employed in the United Kingdom, providing the training is confined only to observation, familiarisation and classroom instruction Undertake fact-finding, check details or examine goods. You may also visit the United Kingdom as a business visitor if you are: representing a foreign IT company that is here to install, service or modify its product; representing a foreign machine manufacturer and coming to install, service or repair machinery (as part of a contract of purchase and supply, you may install machinery that is too large to be delivered in one piece); an adviser or consultant to a United Kingdom firm who is employed abroad, either directly or under contract by the same company or group of companies that the client firm belongs to. Advisers must not get involved in project management providing training that is not available anywhere else in the United Kingdom and is for a specific purpose and does not go beyond classroom instruction Visiting as a guest speaker at a conference or seminar. It must be a single or occasional event and not a commercial venture that you are part of or a sports person or entertainer coming for trials or auditions, or for personal appearances which do not involve public performances All our advisors have several years of experience in preparing visa applications and have 100% success on business, family visits or tourist visa. Choosing Dearson Winyard will be a wisest choice and a stress-free process to get your application approved. Start my visa application