How you can get a UK seasonal work visa in 2023, which replaces the tier 5 temporary work visa.

Now, the best thing about this visa is that there’s

• No age limit,
• You don’t need an English language test and
• You don’t need higher education.

And even freshers can apply for many of the positions available under this visa.
Every year the UK government is handing out 30000 seasonal work visas and 10,000 more will be provided if there’s a need for them. You can earn anywhere between 37,000 to 44,000 pounds in the UK and your minimum wage per hour will be 10.42 pounds. After working in the UK, it becomes easy to enter USA, Canada, and even Portugal, and many other developed countries as work experience from the UK is preferred by many countries in the world. If your sponsor agrees to bear the cost of everything, you won’t have to pay visa or application fees. You’ll get free travel, accommodation, and even food for many of the positions under this visa. In this video, I’m going to tell you everything about the UK seasonal worker visa, the jobs you can apply for, the salary and benefits you’ll get, all the requirements documents needed, how much it’ll cost you, total processing time and a demonstration on how to apply for this visa as well.
Now let’s start with what the seasonal work visa actually is. A seasonal work visa is a temporary work visa with which you can come to the UK and work for up to six months at a time. It has been introduced to meet the labor market needs in the UK. Now anyone from anywhere in the world can apply for this visa and there’s no age limit for it. The requirements and documents for this visa are very basic and there are around 40,000 visas issued every single year under this category.
Now, how much will it cost you? If your UK employer is sponsoring you completely, then you don’t need to worry at all. These employers usually have tie-ups with solicitors or immigration lawyers that will just ask you for your documents and process your application for you so you don’t have to pay anything or do anything yourself. If your employer does not sponsor you, then you’ll just have to pay an application fee to the UK government which is 259 pounds. You’ll also have to deposit at least 1270 pounds in your bank account as your maintenance funds or proof of funds. If your employer is not providing that for you, this amount will always remain yours and is meant for your daily expenses like rent, accommodation, food, etc. In most cases, UK employers cover the complete cost for you to move to the UK so you can be a little carefree about this cost.
Now for the job positions under this visa under the seasonal work visa, you can apply for jobs in the horticulture and poultry industries which are the fruit, vegetable, and flower growing and harvesting businesses and a domesticated avian business for birds raised for eggs, meat, and or feathers. The most common job positions available in these industries are fruit pickers, vegetable pickers, packers, farm equipment operators, farm workers, farm managers, dairy farm workers, animal caretakers, broiler processing, plant workers and managers, farm transporters, hatchery managers, lab technicians, nutritionists, poultry vets, breeding managers, forklift operators, warehouse workers, warehouse managers, inventory managers, accountants, sales workers, store managers, store persons, etc. You’ll be provided adequate training for each job position. Now do remember that for these positions you don’t need any qualifications or English tests or higher education.
There’s no age limit for it and even freshers can apply for many of these positions coming to the requirements. The main requirements are that you must be at least 18 years of age. You must have a cos or certificate of sponsorship from a UK employer.
Next, you’ll need at least 1270 pounds in your bank account as maintenance funds or proof of funds to make sure that you can support yourself in the UK to pay for rent, travel, and groceries. If your employer is providing you with accommodation and other expenses, then you don’t need to have these maintenance funds. You should not have any criminal record in any country of the world, so you’ll need a police verification report for this coming to the documents required.
You’ll also need a valid passport to enter the UK and for your visa. You’ll also need other documents like bank statements as proof of funds. Unless your employer specifies in the cos letter that they are willing to sponsor you completely, including the 1270 pounds that are required as maintenance funds. You need a PCC or police clearance certificate from your home country to make sure that you don’t have any criminal convictions in the past. These are the only documents required. You don’t even need a TB test as that’s required only for visas that are longer than six months.
Now, how can we find a sponsor and get your cos letter On the UK government website, there’s a register of licensed sponsors so you can be sure that you won’t be cheated. These registered sponsors have been given the authority to provide job offers and sponsorship letters to foreign candidates such as yourself. The application process is pretty straightforward. You just have to go to their websites and send your CV, which takes just five minutes. So, on this website, you’ll see a CSV file that you download, and when you open it, you can see a list of licensed sponsors from the UK. Now what you have to do is apply a filter for the root column from which you have to filter in seasonal worker.
And now you’ll be able to see a list of seven employers that you can reach out to. This list had just five employers earlier and it keeps updating, so do keep checking it on a regular basis. Many of these websites have dedicated pages for the UK seasonal work visa, where they even provide application assistance. So, all you have to do is follow these simple instructions and send your CV to them. Make sure that you edit your CV for each position that you apply to. If you want to make a UK-specific CV and cover letter download them from here. Alright guys, so that was how you could get your UK seasonal worker visa. I wish you the best of luck with your application and hope you have a great day.