WM3 Who is eligible for a work visa under Religious Worker instructions? (30/03/2015)

To be granted a work visa under Religious Worker instructions, applicants must:

1. be sponsored by a religious organisation registered as a charity with Charities Services:
   1. whose primary purpose is advancing religion; and
   2. who meets the generic sponsorship requirements set out at E6.5; and
2. have religious training and/or religious work experience as set out at WM4(a); and
3. meet temporary entry health and character requirements (A4 and A5); and
4. not previously have held a work visa under Religious Worker instructions or Ministers of religion, missionaries, and members of religious orders instructions, or Specific purpose or event work instructions (at WS2(g) before 5 November 2011) for four years or more.

Effective 30/03/2015