HPI visa is a customized visa for High Potential Individuals who have recently graduated from the world’s top universities!
The High Potential Individual (HPI) visa route was introduced by UK Visas and Immigration 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.
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.
*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.
| Alphabetical rankings lists 2021 (educational institutions ranked in top 50 in two or more lists) | Country |
| California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | USA |
| Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | Hong Kong |
| Columbia University | USA |
| Cornell University | USA |
| Duke University | USA |
| Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL Switzerland) | Switzerland |
| ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) | Switzerland |
| 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 (NYU) | USA |
| Northwestern University | USA |
| Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University | France |
| Peking University | China |
| Princeton University | USA |
| Stanford University | USA |
| Tsinghua University | China |
| University of British Columbia | Canada |
| University of California, Berkeley | USA |
| The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | USA |
| University of California, San Diego | USA |
| University of Chicago US | USA |
| University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| University of Melbourne | Australia |
| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | USA |
| University of Munich (LMU Munich) | Germany |
| University of Pennsylvania | USA |
| The University of Texas at Austin | USA |
| University of Tokyo | Japan |
| University of Toronto | Canada |
| University of Washington | USA |
| Yale University | USA |
If you are a doctorate degree holder, you can stay in the UK for three years. Candidates with Bachelor’s and Master’s are allowed to stay for up to two years in the country with an HPI visa.
The significant difference between the HPI visa and the UK graduate visa is:
| HPI visa | UK graduate visa |
| Who have studied in the world’s top schools outside the UK | Study within UK |
| Can stay for up to two to three years after completing a degree in the world’s top schools outside the UK | Can stay for up to two years after completing a degree in the UK |
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