Work permits and sponsorship

If you’ve accepted an offer and sponsorship is required, our Immigration Team will initiate this process for you around three months before your start date. As part of this process, the immigration team will confirm the documents required for your visa application and will provide timelines for the process. They will also confirm to you the costs that can or cannot be reimbursed after your start date.

If your Student Visa expires three or more months before your start date at Deloitte we are unable to offer you Skilled Worker Sponsorship.

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 back in the UK by the beginning of August to submit the 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 Skilled Worker Visa from a Student Visa. You must have:

• Either 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 Your application may be withdrawn if you do not meet these conditions.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.

If you’ve accepted an offer and sponsorship is required, our Immigration Team will initiate this process for you around three months before your start date. As a part of this process, the immigration team will confirm the documents required for your visa application and will provide timelines for the process. They will also conffirm to you the costs that can or cannot be reimbursed after your start date.   

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:  

• Either 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.