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Complete guide to the new fees for all UK visa categories including work, study, visit, settlement and citizenship. Details on changes effective 4 October 2023.

Get the latest insights on UK work visas and sponsor licence scheme. Your essential resource for navigating UK immigration regulations in 2023.

In recent months, the backlog for immigrant visas in the EB-4 employment-based category, which includes Religious Worker Visas, has reached five years. This is creating uncertainty for religious workers who would have to leave the U.S. (and their congregations) in order to comply with the process and requirements for a permanent legal status.

“They are kneecapping religious workers,” an immigration attorney says of a policy that seems peculiarly targeted. | Opinion

In Carrier v. Ravi Zacharias Int'l Ministries, Inc. No. 1:21-CV-3161-TWT, 2022 WL 1540206 (N.D. Ga. May 13, 2022) and Carrier v. Ravi Zacharias Int'l Ministries, Inc., No. 1:21-CV-3161-TWT, 2023...

Donors State Claims for Misuse of Their Funds, But Not as a Class Action - In Carrier v. Ravi Zacharias Int'l Ministries, Inc. No. 1:21-CV-3161-TWT, 2022 WL 1540206 (N.D....

Is it really in our interest, given that the regime in Tehran polices the boundaries of what is theologically acceptable?

The Religious Worker route is for a person who wants to support the activities of religious institutions in the UK by conducting religious work such as working in a religious order or undertaking non-pastoral work for a religious organisation.

The Charity Worker route is for a person who wants to come to the UK to do voluntary work for no more than 12 months.

Guidance for sponsors on sponsoring a Minister of Religion or Religious Worker.