Senior or Specialist Worker and Graduate Trainee are Global Business Mobility routes which replaced, respectively, the Intra-Company Transfer and Intra-Company Graduate Trainee routes from 11 April 2022.

The Senior or Specialist Worker route enables businesses with linked entities overseas to transfer established employees to work in their UK offices in a skilled role. It is classed as a Worker route, for the purposes of relevant sponsorship fees. Partners in business structures such as limited liability partnerships (LLPs) are treated as employees for these purposes. The route is set out in the Immigration Rules, Appendix Global Business Mobility—Senior or Specialist Worker. References to Senior or Specialist Worker include those with permission under the predecessor Intra-company and Tier 2 (Intra-Company Transfer)/Long-term staff routes.

The Graduate Trainee route is for graduate recruits who are being transferred to undertake a role in the UK which is part of a structured graduate training programme, with clearly defined progression towards a managerial or specialist role within the organisation. It is classed as a Temporary Worker