Why HPI Visa?

• Welcomes new skilled workers without any job offer

• Easy route to the UK

• Attracts top global graduates to the UK

• 2-3 years’ work permit

• Minimum financial requirement

HPI Visa

HPI visa is a customized visa for High Potential Individuals who have recently graduated from the world’s top universities! 

UK Visas and Immigration introduced the High Potential Individual (HPI) visa route on May 30, 2022, to benefit candidates who graduated between November 1, 2021, and October 31, 2022.

Aim of HPI visa: It intends to make available to businesses in Britain a large number of new skilled workers.

HPI Route, the Ideal Route for Talented Students

The HPI path was explicitly intended to lure top global graduates to the United Kingdom (UK). The short-term visa will allow the beneficiaries to start their careers early after finishing their courses in elite universities. The British government initiated this visa to enable the UK workforce to gain from it.
Meanwhile, the government of the UK released the list of eligible universities nominated between 2016 and 2020. Qualified candidates can now apply for an HPI visa without having any job offers in the UK.

Eligibility Requirements

• Candidates from any nation aged 18
• Students who have obtained Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Post-Doctorate degrees from a qualified university within the past five years
• An English language requirement, either from English-speaking country or that they have passed a test or got a degree that demonstrates their proficiency in the English language 
• Financial requirement is a minimum of £1,270 in cash 

*Note: UK universities are not eligible. If you’re already in the UK on a student visa you may be able to apply for a Graduate visa. 

2023 Global University List for HPI Visas 

Alphabetical Rankings Lists 2023 (establishments from Top 50 rankings which appeared on 2 or mores lists) Country California Institute of Technology (Caltech) USA Columbia University USA Cornell University USA Delft University of Technology Netherlands Duke University USA Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL Switzerland) Switzerland ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland Fudan University China Harvard University USA Johns Hopkins University USA Karolinska Institute Sweden Kyoto University Japan Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) USA McGill University Canada Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore New York University USA Northwestern University USA Paris Sciences et Lettres - PSL Research University France Peking University China Princeton University USA Shanghai Jiao Tong University China Stanford University USA Technical University of Munich Germany Tsinghua University China University of British Columbia Canada University of California, Berkeley USA University of California, Los Angeles USA University of California, San Diego USA University of Chicago USA University of Hong Kong Hong Kong University of Melbourne Australia University of Michigan-Ann Arbor USA University of Pennsylvania USA University of Tokyo Japan University of Toronto Canada University of Washington USA Yale University USA Zhejiang University China