For nurses, trades, engineers and other skilled workers

Your skills are wanted abroad.

See which visas in 9 countries fit you. We use only official rules, and we link to each one.

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United Kingdom UK-HCW

Health and Care Worker Visa

12 verified facts

Cost
Application fee: £324 for up to 3 years.
Time
Usually a decision within 3 weeks after you apply, prove your identity and provide your documents.
Stay
Up to 5 years before you need to extend it.
Leads to
After 5 years you may be able to apply to settle permanently (indefinite leave to remain). Not automatic.

Official facts only. Anything we could not check is marked.

The problem

9 government websites. One clear answer.

Immigration rules are spread across dozens of official pages, each written differently. We bring the facts we can verify into one place — and tell you plainly what we could not verify.

2min
239 official facts on 38 visas No account
Your check includesFree
Official rules for each visa✓
For each rule: you meet it, you don't, or not checked yet✓
Fees and processing times where published✓
The official link and check date for every fact✓
What you never get
Guessed fees or processing times✗
Unknowns shown as a yes or a no✗
A ranking of your chances✗
What you pay us0
9 destinations

Where do you want to build your life?

Open a country to see its visas and the official facts we have.

Code Country Visas Verified facts
AU Australia 7 visas 47
CA Canada 5 visas 36
DE Germany 4 visas 22
IE Ireland 2 visas 14
NL Netherlands 5 visas 31
NZ New Zealand 4 visas 21
PT Portugal 3 visas 9
ES Spain 3 visas 18
GB United Kingdom 5 visas 41
How it works

Three steps. About two minutes.

Step 1 of 3

Tell us what you do

Your occupation, experience, education and English level. No documents, no account.

Step 2 of 3

We check the rules

We check your answers against the official rules.

Step 3 of 3

See what's confirmed

Requirements you meet, ones you don't, and what we couldn't verify — with the official link for each.

Why trust us

No agents. No fees. No false promises.

Visa scams cost people their savings and their chance to move. Visafy is guidance you can check for yourself, every time.

  • NeverCharge you to apply for a visa
  • NeverPromise that you will be approved
  • NeverSell your details to agents
  • AlwaysLink every fact to its official government source
  • AlwaysSay so when we could not verify something
Why Visafy exists

Find out where your skills are wanted.

Visafy started after a conversation with a plumber in Morocco who had never heard of the visas that might be open to him. Nobody should miss a chance because the rules were too hard to find.

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