Tech Nation Document Checklist

To allow your application to be assessed, you must provide all of the following documents, uploaded to the Tech Nation platform as part of your application:

A completed Tech Nation Visa application form which is available on Tech Nation’s website at: https://technation.io/visa/apply. This includes a Personal Statement (maximum 1000 words in length) written by you to explain the contribution that you will make to the UK digital technology sector. The statement should be relevant and consistent to the rest of your application, including answers to the following questions and any other information you deem relevant:

• Why do you want to come to the UK?
• What is your planned occupation in the UK?
• Which region or city of the UK are you planning to live in?
• How will the UK digital technology sector benefit from your work? (Examples of this might include the technological advances you will bring, the creation or new markets, the planned growth of a digital technology company, the activities you will take part in outside of your direct occupation.)

The Personal Statement must be submitted using the Tech Nation form and not uploaded as a separate document.

CV with any career and publication history included. It must be typed and be up to 3 sides of A4 paper.

Three letters of recommendation from three different well-established organisations acknowledged as experts in the digital technology field.

Each person who writes a letter for you must:

• Be a senior member of their organisation
• Know your work

Each letter must:

• Be about your Global Talent application - you cannot use a letter that was written for another reason
• Say how the person knows you
• Show your achievements in the digital technology sector, and how you are a leader or potential leader
• Say how you would benefit from living in the UK
• Say how you would contribute to the digital technology field in the UK
• Explain what plans you have for work in the future

The letters must also:

• Be typed and dated
• Be up to 3 single sides of A4 paper, excluding the author’s credentials and contact details
• Be signed by the author, or by someone on behalf of the organisation recommending you
• Include a telephone number and email address, and the organisation’s logo and registered address, if applicable
• Come with the author’s CV (or other proof of their credentials that the endorsing body will accept)

Letters which are deemed by Tech Nation to be duplicates or templates, or closely matching the contents of evidence submitted by other applicants, may be considered fraudulent or not acceptable as evidence for endorsement.

Up to 10 pieces of evidence in relation to the relevant Eligibility Criteria:

• The evidence you supply to demonstrate you meet the Eligibility Criteria must consist of no more than ten documents in total, with each piece of evidence/document of no more than three A4 sides in length. Each document represents a single piece of evidence. For evidence that would exceed the page limit, please only include the most important aspects, e.g. key terms of employment for an employment contract.
• You must provide evidence of any commercially successful established businesses, share ownership or businesses dissolved in the last 5 years where you have been a founder or senior executive.
• You must use the Tech Nation application form to state which of your supporting documents relate to your chosen Eligibility Criteria. If you choose to provide this information in the form of a cover letter you will need to upload it as one of your ten supporting documents.

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING:

All evidence submitted must be legible to be considered during assessment. Documents containing only links to online sources are not acceptable. Authorised English translations must be provided for all documents which are not originally written in English.

The use of templates within your application is not acceptable (e.g. Letters of Reference, Personal Statement, Criteria Evidence, etc.). The standard required for Global Talent endorsement requires that your application be unique. The use of templates may weaken your application or potentially raise concerns regarding the validity of your application.

If appropriate, Tech Nation will undertake checks on the information applicants provide. If Tech Nation finds that false or fraudulent evidence has been submitted, the application will be ineligible for consideration and the Home Office will be informed.

You do not need to send printed hard copies to Tech Nation or the Home Office.

Application data received by Tech Nation will remain strictly private and confidential, and is stored and processed on Tech Nation’s secure application system. Data will only be accessible to the Home Office, Tech Nation and the independent assessment panel. In accordance with Home Office instructions, Tech Nation will store your data for up to 6 years, after which it will be permanently deleted. You should only share data if you have permission to do so, Tech Nation cannot advise regarding NDA's or whether you should share any particular data.