Conditions
. Applicant should be aged between 17 and 30 years.
. Applicant should intend to come to the UK for an extended holiday, and to take employment as part of the holiday for not more than 12 months during the stay.
. Applicant should not intend to set up or run a business, or work as a professional sportsperson during the stay.
. Applicant may be single or married / civil partner to a person who qualifies as a WHM and plans to take the working holiday together and they both qualify in their own right.
. A prospective WHM should normally be single, widowed, or divorced/ dissolved civil partnership.
. Applicant should not have any dependent children aged five years or over, or who will attain the age of five years before the holiday ends.
. Applicant should be able to support him/herself and live in the UK without needing any help from public funds and to pay the cost of the outward fare to the United Kingdom. This condition may be relaxed provided the applicant can demonstrate that necessary funds will be earned before the expiry of the two-year period.

Important
(a) An applicant can stay in the UK for up to two years from the date of the first permission to enter as a working holidaymaker.
(b) Any time spent outside the UK during that period will be counted as part of the two years.
(c) Working holidaymakers are eligible to switch into work permit employment after 12 months stay as a holidaymaker provided the employment opted is not maintained as designated shortage occupation by the work permits (UK) and business and commercial category.
(d) Working holidaymakers may switch into innovators and Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP).