Tier 5 - Temporary workers
This subcategory enables people to come to the UK for:
- up to 12 months in order to work or to perform temporarily as sportspeople, entertainers or creative artists or as charity workers doing temporary and voluntary work for a charity;
- up to 24 months as a temporary religious worker, as part of a Government Authorised Exchange, or under contract to do work that is covered under various international agreements. This last category includes private servants in diplomatic households.
These periods of leave can be made up of consecutive shorter periods, each of which must be of not more than three months.