High Potential Individual visa

What is a High Potential Individual visa (HPI) and can anyone apply under this category?

Applicants will be granted entry clearance under HPI Visa based on their level of qualification such as PhD or other doctoral level qualification for up to 3 years, all other degree qualifications up to 2 years.

Applicants must be awarded a total of 70 points to meet the criteria based on the following:

- Global Universities degree (50 points)

- Language requirement at level B1 (10 Points)

- Financial requirement (10 Points)

Global Universities

USA

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Columbia University

Cornell University

Duke University

Harvard University

Johns Hopkins University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

New York University (NYU)

Northwestern University

Princeton University

Stanford University

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

University of California, San Diego

University of Chicago

University of Washington

Yale University

University of Pennsylvania

University of Texas at Austin

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Canada

McGill University

University of British Columbia

University of Toronto

Hong Kong

Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

University of Hong Kong

Switzerland

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL Switzerland)

ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)

Singapore

Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

National University of Singapore

Japan

Kyoto University

University of Tokyo

China

Peking University

Tsinghua University

Sweden

Karolinska Institute

France

Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University

Australia

University of Melbourne

Germany

University of Munich (LMU Munich)