Ministers of Religion
The Tier 2 Minister of Religion category is for people who are coming to the UK as religious workers for more than two years.
Your role as a Minister of Religion can include:
- Preaching or performing pastoral duties
- Work as a missionary
- Work in a religious order within a community which involves a permanent commitment like a monastery or a convent
Pastoral duties include:
- Leading worship regularly and on special occasions
- Giving religious education to children and adults by preaching or teaching
- Officiating at marriages,funerals and other special services
- Offering counselling and welfare support to members of the congregation
- Recruiting,training and coordinating the work of any local volunteers and lay preachers
Work as a missionary can include:
- the organization of missionary activity (but should not be administrative or clerical unless filling a senior post),supervising staff,co-ordinating the organization of missionary work,being in charge of a particular activity such as accounts/finance,personnel management or IT and translating religious texts-this is missionary work not clerical work.
Before you apply under the Minister of Religion category you must have a Sponsor and a valid certificate of sponsorship.
You are awarded points based on your certificate of sponsorship,English language skills and available maintenance(funds).These funds have to be at or above a certain level for a fixed period of time for you to be able to apply.
You can apply under the Minister of Religion category now if:
- You are applying for entry clearance from outside the UK
- You are applying for further leave to remain from within the UK from an immigration category that allows you to switch into the Minister of Religion category
- You are already in the UK as a Minister of Religion and want to extend your leave to remain.
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Tier System
Tier 2 - Sponsored Skilled Workers
Tier 2 - Ministers of Religion
Permanent/Settlement Residence
It should be noted that as legal representatives we cannot present Tier 4 applications ourselves as the applicant needs to be present at the Border Agency to provide their biometrics.
