Cost and payment of applications
Cost of applications
The following table shows the cost of Tier 2 Certificate of Sponsorship and visa applications made overseas for both the main applicant and their dependants.
| Certificate of Sponsorship (not required for dependant applications) | £184 |
| Tier 2 (General) visa application - main applicant | £494 |
| Tier 2 (General) visa application - main applicant, national of Turkey, Croatia or FYR Macedonia | £445 |
| Tier 2 dependant application - partner, spouse, child under 18 as dependant of main applicant | £494 |
Nationals of the following countries are exempt from Certificate of Sponsorship fees, but are required to pay visa application fees (at a reduced rate):
| Croatia | FYR Macedonia | Turkey |
It has been agreed that departments should pay for all Certificate of Sponsorship applications. Departments are not normally responsible for entry clearance/ visa application fees or for fees incurred by dependants.
Methods of payment
Certificates of Sponsorship are paid for on the Work Permits Desk's credit card and cross-charge departments.
Departments are asked to provide the cost centre, natural account, activity, source of funds and organisation code (note that this must be a general ledger code - project codes are not acceptable) to cross-charge the application fee to, e.g. AX0000/85210/00/00000/10. The cost of any applications will be charged to this account on a monthly basis.
We are unable to cross-charge application fees to colleges. Therefore, colleges must provide a cheque made payable to the University of Oxford with all Certificate of Sponsorship applications.