The Cost of Global Mobility: Real Visa Expenses for Tech Founders in the UK

This 26-page report was built for the founder budgeting a UK move — solo, with a partner, or with a family in tow — who needs to know not the application fee on GOV.UK, but the real one: which of five fee layers actually applies to them, where the family multiplier quietly reweights the whole budget, and which costs never appear on any government fee page at all.

What's inside:

• Why the visa fee is the smallest line on the invoice — six or more separate payees invoice you across the journey (Home Office, endorsing body, adviser, translator, landlord, Companies House), and no single page adds them up until now
• The Immigration Health Surcharge, unpacked — why it's charged per person, per year of visa granted, paid entirely up front, and routinely exceeds every other fee combined for a founder taking a long visa with a family
• The family multiplier, properly modelled — why a partner and two children don't add a modest supplement but roughly quadruple the dominant cost layers, and which costs multiply fully, partially, or not at all
• The costs with no line item — founder time, currency conversion spread, idle maintenance-fund capital, a partner's career interruption, and the six-to-twelve-month cost of a refusal
• Two worked scenarios, side by side — a solo Innovator Founder versus a founder with a partner and two children in the same city, showing how family size doesn't just scale the budget, it reweights its entire shape

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