WM3 Who is eligible for a work visa under Religious Worker instructions?

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
   3. who can demonstrate a genuine need for the applicant to work for the sponsoring religious organisation as a religious worker; and
2. have at least two years of training and/or experience relevant to the religious work they are being sponsored to undertake; 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 before 5 November 2011) for four years or more; and
5. not be an ‘officer’ or ‘nominated person’ of the religious organisation that is sponsoring them.

Effective 06/07/2015