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Overseas Domestic Worker

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Explore the five recorded questions, answers and sources for this pathway.

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What type of worker, employment situation, occupation or professional activity is this pathway actually designed for?

The pathway is designed for domestic workers in a private household who live outside the UK, have worked for their employer for at least one year, and meet other eligibility requirements. Domestic workers include cleaners, chauffeurs, cooks, those providing personal care for the employer and their family, and nannies.

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  • Overview
    You can apply for a visa to visit the UK with your employer if you: live outside the UK are a domestic worker in a private household have worked for your employer for at least one year meet the other eligibility requirements Domestic workers include: cleaners chauffeurs cooks those providing personal care for the employer and their family nannies

Does the applicant need a job offer, employer, sponsor, transfer relationship or other employer involvement? What is important about that employer relationship?

The applicant must have an employer and have worked for that employer for at least one year. The visa is for visiting the UK with the employer.

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  • Overview
    You can apply for a visa to visit the UK with your employer if you: live outside the UK are a domestic worker in a private household have worked for your employer for at least one year meet the other eligibility requirements

What are the few decisive professional characteristics of the pathway: occupation, qualifications, experience, salary, skill level, shortage status, labour-market condition or equivalent?

The route is for a domestic worker in a private household (for example, a cleaner, chauffeur, cook, personal carer or nanny), aged 19 or older, who has worked for the employer for at least 1 year in the same household (or one they use regularly), travels with the employer and intends to work full time in a UK household where the employer will live; the employer must pay at least the National Minimum Wage.

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  • https://www.gov.uk/overseas-domestic-worker-visa/print
    You can apply for a visa to visit the UK with your employer if you: live outside the UK are a domestic worker in a private household have worked for your employer for at least one year meet the other eligibility requirements Domestic workers include: cleaners chauffeurs cooks those providing personal care for the employer and their family nannies
  • https://www.gov.uk/overseas-domestic-worker-visa/print
    You must prove that you: are 19 or older have worked for your employer for at least 1 year work in the same household as your employer or one they use regularly plan to travel to the UK with your employer, their partner or children intend to work as a full-time domestic worker in a UK household your employer will live in plan to leave the UK at the end of 6 months are able to support yourself in the UK without the need for public funds
  • https://www.gov.uk/overseas-domestic-worker-visa/print
    Your employer must also pay you at least the National Minimum Wage .

What work does the permission allow? Is the holder tied to an employer, occupation or sector? Can family accompany where clearly established?

The permission allows work only as a domestic worker in a private household. The holder may change employers to another job as a domestic worker in a private household, but only if they do not stay longer than 6 months. The official source does not state whether family can accompany.

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Limits of the record
  • Family accompaniment is not mentioned in the supplied document.
  • What you can and cannot do
    You can: travel abroad and return to the UK to complete your stay change employers to another job as a domestic worker in a private household - only if you do not stay longer than the 6 months You cannot: work except as a domestic worker in a private household

How long is the permission normally granted for, how is it renewed, and what longer-term residence direction exists if officially stated?

The visa allows a stay of up to 6 months. It cannot be extended. The official source does not state any longer-term residence direction.

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Limits of the record
  • No longer-term residence direction is stated in the supplied document.
  • How long you can stay
    You can use this visa to visit the UK with your employer for up to 6 months. You must return home at the end of the 6 months. You cannot extend an Overseas Domestic Worker visa.

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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