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 reimburse after your start date, and provide timelines for the process.
If your Student Visa expires three or more months before your start date at Deloitte we are unable to offer you a role at Deloitte which requires the Graduate Visa route.
Travel can impact your visa application and start date at Deloitte. Travel will be permitted in early summer when the Immigration Team is preparing your application, but you must be in the UK in early August to submit in country switching application. 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 which apply for an application to Graduate Visa from a Student Visa. You must have:
- Completed, or be applying for the Graduate 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.
- Your education provider (such as your university or college) has notified the Home Office you’ve successfully completed your course. Please check with your university when they typically submit those notifications.
- 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.
- You must be present in the UK to submit your applications.
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 and revoke offers of employment already made, in line with the new regulations.