If you’ve accepted an offer and it’s needed, our Immigration Team will initiate this sponsorship process for you around three months before your start date. They’ll then confirm the documents needed for the visa application, which costs we’ll cover and timelines for the process.

If your Student Visa expires three or more months before your start date at Deloitte, you need to apply for another UK visa OR leave the UK in line with your visa expiry. Your Deloitte-sponsored Skilled Worker application will then be submitted abroad.

Travel can impact your visa application and start date at Deloitte. When the immigration process begins, you’ll be asked to provide details of your travel plans and your Immigration Advisor here will assess and confirm their feasibility. Once the visa application is submitted in the UK, you won’t be able to travel outside the Common Travel Area.

You also need to carefully read the following requirements when you apply for the Skilled Worker Visa from a Student Visa. You must have:

• Completed, or be applying for the Skilled Worker Visa no more than three months before the expected completion date for, a course leading to a UK-recognised bachelor's or master's degree OR completed, or be applying no more than three months before the expected completion date for, a course leading to a UK Postgraduate Certificate in Education or Professional Graduate Diploma of Education OR have done a minimum of 12 months’ study (during your most recent stay in the UK) towards a UK PhD.
• Studied for the course at a UK institution that’s a UK recognised or listed body, or which holds a sponsor licence under the Points Based System.
• Sufficient evidence (i.e., a letter from your educational institution) that your degree or master’s is – or is expected to be – completely finished before the programme start date. This needs to confirm the date that you have or will have sat all of your exams and handed in all of your coursework for assessment. This is to ensure your application from Student Visa to Skilled Worker can be processed before you start. Your application may be withdrawn if you do not meet these conditions.
• Unconditional written consent from your scholarship agency confirming that they consent for you to remain in or re-enter the UK for an unlimited time, if you’re currently being sponsored (or have been sponsored within the last 12 months or less) by a government or international scholarship agency. ‘Sponsored’ means supported by an award which covers both fees and living costs.

The Home Office regularly change immigration rules. If that happens, and the changes affect the viability of your application before your start date, we reserve the right to change how we manage sponsorship applications, in line with the new regulations.