Licensed sponsoring organisations for Temporary Work visa schemes

This is the list of licensed sponsoring organisations for UK Research and Innovation schemes of the Temporary Work, Government Authorised Exchange visa.

These organisations have been approved to sponsor individual visas:

  • Aegiq Ltd
  • Arm Limited
  • Babraham Institute
  • British Institute of International and Comparative Law
  • Diamond Light Source
  • Earlham Institute
  • Genome Research Ltd (Wellcome Sanger Institute)
  • HR Wallingford
  • Institute for Fiscal Studies
  • John Innes Centre
  • National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB)
  • National Museums Scotland
  • National Oceanography Centre
  • Natural History Museum
  • Plymouth Marine Laboratory
  • Quadram Institute
  • Quantum Motion Technologies Limited
  • Rothamsted Research
  • Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • Science Museum Group
  • Scottish Association for Marine Science
  • The Alan Turing Institute
  • The Francis Crick Institute
  • The James Hutton Institute
  • The Moredun Foundation
  • The National Archives
  • The Pirbirght Institute
  • The Sainsbury Laboratory
  • The Welding Institute
  • UK Atomic Energy Authority
  • UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
  • UK Research and Innovation

Last updated: 13 February 2025

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