Tier 1 Investor Visa

Tier 1 Investor visa is for high net worth individual to come to invest in the UK and settle in the UK. The minimum investment is £2 millions.  People can invest £5 million and settle in the UK in three years and £10 millions in two years.

The Requirements for Tier 1 Investor Visa

• You are 18 or over
  
• You have a minimum £2million belong to you or your partner.
• You can disposal the fund to the UK.
• You have held the fund in a regulated financial institution for two years unless you can prove the source of fund.
• You have opened a investment account with a regulated bank in the UK.
• You don't have any criminal offence in last 10 years. 

The requirements for Tier 1 Investor visa extension

The requirements for initial Tier 1 Investor visa granted before 6 November 2014.

• You have money not less than £1 million of your own, under your own control in the UK;
• You have invested not less than £750,000 of your investment in the UK in UK Government bonds, share capital or loan capital in active and trading UK registered companies other than the business in property investment or development; 
• You have invested the remaining balance of £1 million in the UK by the purchase of assets or by maintaining the money on deposit in a UK regulated financial institution;
• You made the investment either 1) within 3 months of your entry into the UK, if you were granted entry clearance as a Tier 1 Investor; 2) within 3 months of the date of the grant of entry clearance or leave to remain as a Tier 1 Investor; or 3) within 12 months before the date of the application which led to your first grant of leave as a Tier 1 Investor;
• You have maintained the level of investment for the whole of the remaining period of your leave.

The requirements for initial Tier 1 Investor visa granted before between 6 November 2014 and 28 March 2019: 

• You invested not less than £2 million in the UK by way of UK Government bonds, share capital or loan capital in active and trading UK registered companies;
• You made the investment either 1) within 3 months of your entry into the UK, if you were granted entry clearance as a Tier 1 Investor; 2) within 3 months of the date of the grant of entry clearance or leave to remain as a Tier 1 Investor; or 3) within 12 months before the date of the application which led to your first grant of leave as a Tier 1 Investor;
• You have maintained the level of investment for the whole of the remaining period of your leave.

The requirements for initial Tier 1 Investor visa granted after 29th March 2019:

• You must have invested not less than £2 million in the UK by way of UK share capital or loan capital in active and trading UK registered companies;
• You made the investment either 1) within 3 months of your entry into the UK, if you were granted entry clearance as a Tier 1 Investor; 2) within 3 months of the date of the grant of entry clearance or leave to remain as a Tier 1 Investor; or 3) within 12 months before the date of the application which led to your first grant of leave as a Tier 1 Investor;
• You have maintained the level of investment for the whole of the remaining period of your leave.
  

The requirements for ILR via Tier 1 Investor

The requirements for Tier 1 Investor to Indefinite Leave to Remain:

• You have spent a 5 years of continuous period or three years periods or 2 years periods depends on you investments. 
  
• You have maintained the level of investment for the whole period of your leave.
• You have passed life in the UK test.
• You have passed English language test or your degree taught in English if you are not from one of the English Speaking countries.
• You have been absent from the UK for not more than 180 days each year or not more than 180 days in any 12 months if your last leave granted after 11 Jan 2018.