Overseas Domestic Worker visa
🇬🇧 United Kingdom visas · Work
What it is
Visa for a domestic worker in a private household accompanying their employer on a visit to the UK, for up to 6 months.
Key facts
- Category
- Work
- Duration
- Up to 6 months.
- Processing time
- Up to 3 weeks
- Maximum validity
- 6 months
- Extendable
- No
- Dependants
- Conditional
- Age
- 19 or over
- English requirement
- None for the visa; B1 for legacy pre-2012 settlement route
- How to apply
- Online
Standard figures for this route. Some applicants pay a reduced fee or none at all, so confirm your own case on the official page.
Fees
- Application fee (Overseas Domestic Worker visa)
- GBP 726
- Application fee (Extend (legacy, applied on or before 5 April 2012))
- GBP 1,407
Key requirements
- Employed as a domestic worker in a private household abroad
- Travelling with your employer to the UK
Working on this visa
You can: ... change employers to another job as a domestic worker in a private household - only if you do not stay longer than the 6 months. You cannot: work except as a domestic worker in a private household
Bringing family
conditional - not available on the current route (page states nothing about dependants joining); only legacy pre-5-April-2012 Domestic Worker in a Private Household visa holders can bring partner and children under 18
Money you must show
proof you can support yourself during your trip, for…
Facts checked against the official source. Last updated 2 August 2026.