# UK Visit Visa The need to visit the UK A visit visa is a visa that will allow a person to visit the UK for a period of time and not work, study or stay permanently. The best way to enter Britain as a citizen is to do [registration as a British citizen](https://www.visaandmigration.com/service/registration-of-a-child-as-a-british-citizen/31.html). There are various ways to register as a British citizen. The main two options are naturalization and registration from overseas. UK visit visas are issued by the Indian Government to British citizens. The applicant should be a British citizen in order to apply for a UK visit visa. It is necessary for an Indian Sponsor to sign an undertaking to take the responsibility of the applicant, in case of any eventuality. The [UK visit visa](https://www.visaandmigration.com/service/uk-visitor-or-tourist-visa/36.html) can be issued to any foreign national who needs to enter the UK for up to 6 months. As a British citizen, you are required to register for this visa if you are planning on traveling abroad for more than 3 months or spend more than 180 days outside of the UK in total. **Need for the registration as a british citizen to get the UK visit visa** If you are not a British citizen but want to visit the UK for vacations or any other reason, you will need to register as a British citizen. Registration is mandatory for all people who are not citizens of the United Kingdom, have no right to reside in the UK without any restrictions on time and intend to stay in the UK for more than 6 months. There are two ways of doing so: A) Registering through your spouse if they are a British citizen or B) Registering through your ancestors which was once registered as a British citizen. **Process of registration as a British citizen** The process of registration as a British citizen is now very simple. It only needs to take 10 minutes from your side and can be done from anywhere in the world. The applicant will need to go through the following steps to get registered as British citizen - The applicant needs to be 18 years of age or older - They need to have lived in the UK for 5 years - They must also have done their National Service or do 6 months community service in order to to qualify - They must speak English and pass an English language test. **Eligibility** A person who is not a British citizen can register as a British citizen if he or she - was born in the United Kingdom; - is the child of a British citizen; - has lived in the United Kingdom for most of his or her life; - has sufficient knowledge about life in the United Kingdom.
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What is the UK Sole Representative Visa? The UK Sole Representative Visa is a kind of the overseas Business visa type that is given as well as provided to all the businesses or businesspersons that plan or wanted to send one of the senior employees of their company to the UK in order to make or build the recomendable commercial presence of that company in the UK. With the help of the UK defacto visa of doing the overseas Business visa makes it possible for a senior employee of any company to start as well as build the presence of the business or the company in other countries or overseas such as the U.K. Basically, under this visa type the businesspersons or the businesses plan as well as build a host office or branch in the U.K. to establish and build a great presence of the company/ business there. With the UK Sole Representative Visa a person or a company can establish the branch or even a wholly owned subsidiary or a franchise, etc. once a person or a company survives for 5 or more year in the territory of the u.k. and with the same visa that company can get the permanent Indefinite leave to remain or we can say that ILR. Here are a few requirements for getting the UK defacto visa smoothly as well as easily:

11/17/2021
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