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Does an EU blue card carry any weight in the application for the UK innovator founder visa?

I have a blue card from Germany in the field of data analysis and I plan to launch a startup in that field, but I found that tax regulations in the UK work better for me. How should I go about it and would an EU blue card be beneficial to my application?


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  • Good Advice UK
    May 03, 2023

    Having an EU Blue Card per se is not going to affect an application for an innovator founder positively or negatively. However, if you explain in the application that your business was assessed as innovative and that you managed to obtain residence permit in Germany on that basis, I assume, then this could be a positive merit for the application. One should also consider that the founder innovator requires a fresh business idea or a business idea that has been in development but not fully launched, therefore involving the work done in Germany has to be thoroughly considered as it may be seen as an existing business.