Why HPI Visa?

• _{Welcomes new skilled workers without any job offer}

• _{Easy route to the UK}

• _{Attracts top global graduates to UK}

• _{2-3 years’ work permit}

• _{Minimum financial requirement}

HPI Visa

HPI visa is a customized visa for High Potential Individuals who have recently graduated from the world’s top universities! 

The High Potential Individual (HPI) visa route was introduced by UK Visas and Immigration on May 30, 2022, to benefit candidates who graduated between November 1, 2021, and October 31, 2022.

Aim of HPI visa: It intends to make available to businesses in Britain a large number of new skilled workers.

 HPI Route, the Ideal Route for Talented Students

The HPI path was explicitly intended to lure top global graduates to the United Kingdom (UK). The short-term visa will allow the beneficiaries to start their careers early after finishing their courses in elite universities. The British government initiated this visa to enable the UK workforce to gain from it.
Meanwhile, the government of the UK released the list of eligible universities nominated between 2016 and 2020. Qualified candidates can now apply for an HPI visa without having any job offers in the UK.

Eligibility Requirements

• Candidates from any nation aged 18
• Students who have obtained Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Post-Doctorate degrees from a qualified university within the past five years
• An English language requirement, either from English-speaking country or that they have passed a test or got a degree that demonstrates their proficiency in the English language 
• Financial requirement is a minimum of £1,270 in cash 

*Note: UK universities are not eligible. If you’re already in the UK on a student visa you may be able to apply for a Graduate visa. 

List of Universities in 2022

Alphabetical rankings lists 2021 (educational institutions ranked in top 50 in two or more lists)	Country
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	USA
Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	Hong Kong
Columbia University	USA
Cornell University	USA
Duke University	USA
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL Switzerland)	Switzerland
ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland
Harvard University	USA
Johns Hopkins University	USA
Karolinska Institute	Sweden
Kyoto University	Japan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	USA
McGill University	Canada
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore
National University of Singapore	Singapore
New York University (NYU)	USA
Northwestern University	USA
Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University	France
Peking University	China
Princeton University	USA
Stanford University	USA
Tsinghua University	China
University of British Columbia	Canada
University of California, Berkeley	USA
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	USA
University of California, San Diego	USA
University of Chicago US	USA
University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
University of Melbourne	Australia
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	USA
University of Munich (LMU Munich)	Germany
University of Pennsylvania	USA
The University of Texas at Austin	USA
University of Tokyo	Japan
University of Toronto	Canada
University of Washington	USA
Yale University	USA

Period of HPI Visa

If you are a doctorate degree holder, you can stay in the UK for three years. Candidates with Bachelor’s and Master’s are allowed to stay for up to two years in the country with an HPI visa.

Differences Between HPI Visa and Graduate Visa

The significant difference between the HPI visa and the UK graduate visa is:

HPI visa	UK graduate visa
Who have studied in the world’s top schools outside the UK	Study within UK
Can stay for up to two to three years after completing a degree in the world’s top schools outside the UK	Can stay for up to two years after completing a degree in the UK