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  • Most people below the age of 51 years old, with an occupation (listed on each country’s list), 2+ years of work experience & good English / French are eligible for this
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Apply for the UK HPI visa through Y-Axis. Designed for high-achieving graduates, this visa offers a 2-year stay, minimal financial requirements.

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Why HPI Visa?

  • Welcomes new skilled workers without any job offer

  • Easy route to the UK

  • Attracts top global graduates to the UK

  • 2-3 years’ work permit

  • Minimum financial requirement

HPI Visa

HPI visa is a customized visa for High Potential Individuals who have recently graduated from the world’s top universities! 

UK Visas and Immigration introduced the High Potential Individual (HPI) visa route 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.

HPI Route, the Ideal Route for Talented Students

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.

Eligibility Requirements

  • Candidates from any nation aged 18
  • Students who have obtained Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Post-Doctorate degrees from a qualified university within the past five years
  • An English language requirement, either from English-speaking country or that they have passed a test or got a degree that demonstrates their proficiency in the English language 
  • Financial requirement is a minimum of £1,270 in cash 

*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. 

Global University List for HPI Visa (2025-26)

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Australian National University (ANU)

Australia

Boston University

United States

Brown University

United States

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

United States

Carnegie Mellon University

United States

City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK)

Hong Kong

Columbia University

United States

Cornell University

United States

Delft University of Technology

Netherlands

Duke University

United States

EPFL – Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Switzerland

ETH Zurich

Switzerland

Fudan University

China

Harvard University

United States

Heidelberg University

Germany

Institut Polytechnique de Paris

France

Johns Hopkins University

United States

Karolinska Institute

Sweden

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Sweden

KU Leuven

Belgium

Kyoto University

Japan

Lund University

Sweden

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

United States

McGill University

Canada

Monash University

Australia

Nanjing University

China

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore)

Singapore

National University of Singapore (NUS)

Singapore

New York University (NYU)

United States

Northwestern University

United States

Peking University

China

Princeton University

United States

PSL University

France

Purdue University – West Lafayette

United States

Seoul National University

South Korea

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

China

Sorbonne University

France

Stanford University

United States

Technical University of Munich

Germany

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

Hong Kong

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Hong Kong

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Hong Kong

The University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong

The University of Melbourne

Australia

The University of New South Wales (UNSW)

Australia

The University of Queensland

Australia

The University of Sydney

Australia

The University of Tokyo

Japan

Tsinghua University

China

Université Paris-Saclay

France

University of Amsterdam

Netherlands

University of Bonn

Germany

University of British Columbia

Canada

University of California, Berkeley (UCB)

United States

University of California, Irvine

United States

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

United States

University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

United States

University of California, Santa Barbara

United States

University of Chicago

United States

University of Copenhagen

Denmark

University of Groningen

Netherlands

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

United States

University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

United States

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

United States

University of Munich (LMU Munich)

Germany

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

United States

University of Pennsylvania

United States

University of Science and Technology of China

China

University of Southern California

United States

University of Texas at Austin

United States

University of Toronto

Canada

University of Washington

United States

University of Wisconsin–Madison

United States

University of Zurich

Switzerland

Vanderbilt University

United States

Washington University in St Louis

United States

Yale University

United States

Yonsei University

South Korea

Zhejiang University

China

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