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Start a digital & AI marketing business and self-sponsor your UK visa to stay or move to the UK

Your own UK company sponsors you, so you control your stay and how soon you can settle. About 5–7 clients can fund it, from anywhere in the world, and AI does much of the work.

Free guideStart a Marketing Business & Self-Sponsor Your UK VisaDigital Marketing Skill Institute
  • The client maths: how many clients fund a £41,700–£50,100 salary
  • How to control your route to ILR, in as little as 3 years
  • Why about 3 months of income can be enough to apply, and you don't need to live in the UK to start
  • The 7 reasons self-sponsorship applications fail, and how to avoid them
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What's inside

Your pathway to your own business, and your own UK sponsor

Practical, honest and written for working professionals and business owners. Fees checked against GOV.UK in November 2026.

1

Self-sponsorship, explained

Your UK company, a sponsor licence, a certificate and a Skilled Worker visa. How it really works.

2

The roles and salaries

The four marketing occupation codes, their minimum salaries, and which one to build your plan on.

3

The client maths

What 5, 6 and 7 clients at £1,000 a month really cover, including tax and sponsorship costs.

4

Control your route to ILR

Pay yourself more and settle sooner: 10, 5 or as little as 3 years, decided by your business, not an employer.

5

AI does the heavy lifting

A month of social content in about 4 hours instead of 40, so one person can serve more clients.

6

Why applications fail

The 7 refusal reasons immigration lawyers see most, and the step-by-step path that avoids them.

Who it's for

This guide is for you if...

You don't need a marketing background. Most of our students are working professionals who started from zero.

You are already in the UK and want to stay without depending on an employer
You want to move to the UK without waiting for a job offer
You want to run your own business and earn from clients anywhere in the world
You want to control how soon you settle: ILR, then a British passport

Your pathway

The missing piece: proof that wins your first clients

Clients pay for proof, and the Home Office only licenses a business with paying clients. Our Digital & AI Marketing Master Program gives you that proof from day one, through a U.S. Project Internship with a U.S. product-led company, plus coaching to win your first clients.

Unpaid and project-based, running alongside your 3 months of training. It is not a job offer.

  1. 1Sign your internship agreementwith our U.S. product-led partner company as soon as you enrol.
  2. 2Work on a real project briefThe company provides the budget, so you run real campaigns.
  3. 3Win clients with your resultsA verified U.S. work reference letter and case studies for your proposals.

From our students

Our students already win clients abroad

Graduates of our Digital & AI Marketing training.

Clients alongside a day job
“I manage three clients in the U.S. and Canada alongside my day job.”
Zainab A.
Clients in New York and Toronto
“The best investment I’ve made in myself. I now live in Portugal with my family, and my income comes from clients in New York and Toronto.”
Kemi R.
The work of a 3-person team
“What won me the remote role in Canada was my AI marketing knowledge. I could do the work of a 3-person team. My location became irrelevant.”
Kofi B.

Individual results after implementing the program. Not typical or guaranteed.

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