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Global Business Mobility: Graduate Trainee

UK visa route

Licensed sponsors
622
Visas issued, 2025
477
Change 2024→2025
-3.0%
Towns with sponsors
205
Sponsors622on 26 Oct 2026
Year by year
Data as at 26 Oct 2026
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Licensed sponsors

Organisations licensed for this route on the Home Office register, 26 Oct 2026.

Sponsors by town
  1. London260
  2. Bristol13
  3. Birmingham13
  4. Slough10
  5. Manchester9
  6. Milton Keynes8
  7. Glasgow8
  8. Aberdeen8
  9. Reading6
  10. Woking5
  11. Sunderland5
  12. Staines-Upon-Thames5
  13. Farnborough4
  14. Peterborough4
  15. Liverpool4
Sponsors by industry (Companies House SIC section)
  1. Manufacturing144
  2. Information and communication62
  3. Professional, scientific and technical activities57
  4. Administrative and support service activities42
  5. Financial and insurance activities35
  6. Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles32
  7. Construction30
  8. Transportation and storage19
  9. Accommodation and food service activities14
  10. Mining and quarrying11
  11. Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply10
  12. Real estate activities4
Source: Home Office, Register of licensed sponsors: workers and students (26 Oct 2026). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; Companies House, basic company data (1 Oct 2026)Data as at 26 Oct 2026

Entry clearance visas issued

Visas issued to main applicants and dependants, calendar years (Home Office). Includes earlier names of the route.

Visas issued by year

246492202220242026
246492202220242026
Data table
2022232
2023474
2024492
2025477
2026211
Visas issued 2024–2025 by nationality
  1. Germany127
  2. Spain75
  3. United States73
  4. Netherlands66
  5. France56
  6. Italy54
  7. India43
  8. China41
  9. Pakistan40
  10. South Africa32
  11. Hong Kong31
  12. Australia25
Source: Home Office, Immigration system statistics (year ending June 2026), Open Government Licence v3.0Data as at Jun 2026

Application fees

Main applicant fee from 8 October 2026 (outside and inside the UK), as listed by the Home Office.

FeeAmount
Global Business Mobility – Graduate Trainee - main applicant and dependants£340
Global Business Mobility – Graduate Trainee - main applicant and dependants£340
Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS), or approval under Sponsor a Worker:- Temporary Worker including Global Business Mobility - Graduate Trainee, UK expansion Worker, Service Supplier and Secondment Worker route and Scale-up route£55
Source: Home Office immigration and nationality fees, 8 October 2026Data as at 8 Oct 2026

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