Business - General Activities

A visitor may apply for this visa if they wish to visit the UK for business-related activities for up to 6 months. The Home Office have produced a comprehensive set of visitor rules for individuals coming to the UK as visitors.

Visitors to Diamond are frequently involved in business-related activities as set out below.

A visitor may:

• Attend meetings, conferences, seminars, interviews;
• Give a one-off or short series of talks and speeches provided these are not organised as commercial events and will not make a profit for the organiser;
• Negotiate and sign deals and contracts;
• Attend trade fairs, for promotional work only, provided the visitor is not directly selling;
• Carry out site visits and inspections;
• Gather information for their employment overseas;
• Be briefed on the requirements of a UK based customer, provided any work for the customer is done outside of the UK.