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Working Holidaymakers Scheme Overview
Available to Commonwealth citizens between 17 and 30 years only; this visa must be applied for from outside the UK in your country of origin.
In June 2005 the rules changed: the Working Holiday Visa primary focus became travel and holidaying.
During the allocated two years you may work for a total of 12 months only (e.g. only half the time spent on your Working Holiday Visa should be spent on work).
There are no restrictions on where you work and you can choose to work the whole 12 months in succession or in shorter spells. (If you were granted a visa prior to June 8, 2005, you are allowed to work the full two years).
The age limit has also been extended so that you can apply up to your 30th birthday.
Requirements
The Home Office requirements for entering the UK as a working holidaymaker state you must:
- Be a Commonwealth citizen
- Be aged 17 to 30 inclusive or was that age when first given leave to enter in this capacity
- Be unmarried (or married to a person who meets the requirements and intend to take a working holiday together)
- Have the means to pay for the return or onward journey
- Able and intend to maintain and accommodate yourself without recourse to public funds
- Intend to take employment as an integral part of the working holiday
- Do not have dependent children who are five years of age or over, or who will reach five years of age before you complete the working holiday
- Intend to leave the UK at the end of your working holiday
- Not look to enter on a date beyond two years from the date you were first given leave to enter, if you have previously spent time in the UK as a working holiday maker
- Hold a valid UK entry clearance for entry in this capacity
For further information please visit www.ukvisas.gov.uk
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