- Streamlined route to work and live in the UK opens for
world’s most talented
- Prize winners from across science, humanities, engineering,
the arts and digital technology can take advantage of the new
rules
- Changes to Global Talent route will help the UK continue to
attract the best and brightest from around the world
Winners of awards, including Nobel Prizes, the Turing Award,
Oscars and Golden Globes, will be able to live and work in the UK
more easily under reforms being introduced by the Home Office.
From today (May 5) individuals who have won prestigious awards
from across the sciences, humanities, engineering, the arts and
digital technology will be able to take advantage of changes to
the Global Talent visa route.
Currently, people on the Global Talent route have to successfully
apply to one of six endorsing bodies. The new fast track route
launching today would allow applicants who hold a qualifying
prize to fast track the endorsement application and instead make
a single visa application.
The eligible prize winners include:
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Science, technology, engineering and maths:
Nobel Prize winners in Physics, Chemistry, Economic Science and
Medicine; Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering; Fields Medal;
Turing Award
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Music: Brit Award - International Male/Female;
Mobo – Best International Act; Grammys – Lifetime Achievement
Award
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Film, TV and theatre: Various Academy Award
and Golden Globe categories; Bafta – Best Film
Actress/Actor/Director; various Tony Awards and Olivier Awards
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Arts & literature: Dorothy and Lillian
Gish Prize; Hugo Boss Prize; Nobel Prize - Literature
Winners of certain awards across dance, fashion, architecture,
and social sciences will also be included.
The Global Talent route is part of the UK’s new points-based
immigration system, which will attracts the best and brightest to
the country depending on the skills they can bring, rather than
their nationality.
Home Secretary said:
“Winners of these awards have reached the pinnacle of their
career and they have so much to offer the UK. These important
changes will give them the freedom to come and work in our world
leading arts, sciences, music, and film industries as we build
back better.
“This is exactly what our new point-based immigration system was
designed for – attracting the best and brightest based on the
skills and talent they have, not where they’ve come from.”
The Government has worked with the endorsing bodies to draft the
initial list of qualifying prizes, which will be kept under
review.
Since it came into force in February 2020 thousands of people
have used the Global Talent route to enter the UK.
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Notes to Editors
- For more information contact the Home Office Press Office on
0300 123 3535
- A full list of the qualifying awards are below
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Science: Nobel Prize – Physics; Nobel
Prize – Chemistry; Nobel Prize – Medicine; Fyssen
International Prize
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Engineering: Charles Stark Draper Prize
for Engineering; Millennium Technology Prize; Queen
Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
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Social Science: Nobel Prize - Economic
Science; Holberg Prize; Balzan Prize
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Mathematics: Fields Medal
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Computing: Turing Award; ACM Prize in
Computing
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Literature: Nobel Prize - Literature
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Arts: Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize; Hugo
Boss Prize;
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Fashion: Fashion Award – Designer of the
Year; Fashion Award – Accessories Designer of the Year;
Fashion Award – Outstanding Achievement
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Architecture: Royal Gold Medal; Pritzker
Prize
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Dance: Bessie – Outstanding Performer;
Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards – Best Male; Critics’
Circle National Dance Awards -Best Female
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TV and Film: Academy Awards - Actor in a
leading role; Academy Awards - Actress in a leading role;
Academy Awards – Cinematography; Academy Awards –
Directing; Academy Awards - Writing (adapted screenplay);
Academy Awards - Writing (original screenplay); BAFTA -
Best Film Actor; BAFTA - Best Film Actress; BAFTA - Film
Director; Golden Globes - Best Actor in a Motion Picture;
Golden Globes - Best Actress in a Motion Picture; Golden
Globes - Best Actress Musical/Comedy; Golden Globes - Best
Actor Musical/Comedy; Golden Globes - Best Actor in a TV
Motion Picture; Golden Globes - Best Actress in a TV Motion
Picture; Golden Globes - Best TV Actor Drama; Golden Globes
- Best TV Actress Drama; Golden Globes - Best TV Actor
Musical/Comedy; Golden Globes - Best TV Actress
Musical/Comedy; Golden Globes - Best Director of a Motion
Picture; Golden Globes - Best Screenplay of a Motion
Picture; Golden Globes - Cecil B. deMille Award; Golden
Globes - Carol Burnett Award
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Theatre: Tony Award - Best Play Author;
Tony Award- Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
in a Play; Tony Award - Best Performance by an Actress in a
Leading Role in a Play; Tony Award- Best Performance by an
Actor in a Leading Role In A Musical; Tony Award- Best
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical;
Tony Award- Best Direction of a Play; Tony Award - Best
Direction of a Musical; Tony Award Best Choreography; Tony
Award- Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the
Theatre; Olivier Awards - Best Play Author; Olivier Awards
- Best Actor; Olivier Awards – Best Actress; Olivier Awards
- Outstanding Achievement in Dance; Olivier Awards - Best
Director; Olivier Awards - Outstanding achievement in
opera; Olivier Awards - Outstanding achievement in music;
Olivier Awards – Best Theatre Choreographer
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Music: Brit Awards - International Female;
Brit Awards - International Male; Wihuri Sibelius Prize;
ICMA - Lifetime achievement award; ICMA - Artist of the
year; MOBO - Best International Act; WOMEX – Artist;
Grammys- Lifetime Achievement Award
- Further details on the Global Talent Route, including
endorsing bodies can be found here
