A visitor is a person who lives outside the United Kingdom who comes to the
United Kingdom for a holiday or for business reasons such as the attending of
meetings with United Kingdom businesses or to negotiate and enter into contracts with
them, to attend trade fairs, conferences and classroom training.   You must be able to show
that you are seeking entry as a visitor for no more than a period of six months, you intend to
leave the United Kingdom on completion of your visit and you have sufficient funds to maintain
and accommodate yourself without working or recourse to public funds. If you were given
permission to stay for less than six months on entry you can apply to extend your stay, up to a
maximum period of six months.

Most Common Wealth citizens do not require a visitors visa and may apply on arrival for clearance to
enter and remain in the UK as visitors.  They will be granted permission to remain for up to a period of
six months, subject to proof of means and an intention to depart at the end of this period.  Should the
entry clearance officer be of the opinion that a person does not enter the UK for the sole purpose of being
a visitor, as a result of something said to the contrary, or because of documentation found in the visitor's
possession, entry will be denied.  It is possible for most Common Wealth citizens to change their visitor
visa status whilst in the UK, subject to certain conditions and requirements.

As a business visitor you are free to transact business in the United Kingdom either as a tourist or in
connection with your employment or business overseas but you may not take paid or unpaid
employment either for someone else or on your own account, produce goods or provide services within
the United Kingdom, or sell goods or services to members of the public.  You may attend meetings with
United Kingdom businesses or negotiate and enter into contracts with them, attend trade fairs,
conferences and classroom training.  You may also enter as a visitor, if you are a sports person or
entertainer coming to the United Kingdom for a trial, audition or for a personal appearance which does
not involve a performance.  The maximum period allowed as a visitor is a period of six months.
Frequent business visitors can apply for a multiple-entry visa as a visitor valid for two years.

It is necessary for some visitors to apply for entry clearance as visitors before departing from
their home countries if they are visa nationals or semi-visa nationals.  South Africans,
Australians, New Zealanders and others are not visa nationals and need not apply for entry
clearance in their home countries.

You may apply for this visa at the end of your Working Holiday visa, but must abide
by the new rules upon acceptance.

Other similarly related visas are: