Good to know, thanks
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Good to know, thanks
pedruid
Expert Member
You should be so lucky.
Dave
Honorary Master
Agreed. We have been hiring continuously since the inception of our London office. Much better to work where the opportunities are available due to increasing demand than decreasing supply.
reactor_sa
Executive Member
But they will only love you if you have the right to live and work in the UK. Spoke to an agent that side, said if I had a British passport she could get me a job tomorrow but without it companies aren't interested.
gregmcc
Honorary Master
Yip, without a passport or a visa your changes are almost zero. Unless you can get a internal transfer if you work for a company that has offices in the UK.
There are too many hoops a company has to jump through to sponsor you. Much easier for them to look local.
Yeah, that is true. Not many companies will sponsor you, and those that do, want to get you at a bargain.
If you have a British passport or an ancestral visa, it is much easier, but even then, agents don't really want to help you unless they know you are committed to coming to the UK. You need to basically have your flight booked or be in the UK before they will really help you.
jman
Expert Member
I'm lucky that I have an Irish passport and that apparently won't be affected after Brexit. Also, any of the big 4 auditing firms will happily bring in qualified CA's (my GF who's only got an SA passport) from South Africa and sort out visas, moving costs, etc.
Obviously, you have more options if you have the right to work, however, the real determiner is usually whether or not the company has an internal pipeline set up for this or not. I.e., the right legal and HR skills.
Usually, larger, successful companies do have this set up, since they want the best from a larger pool and hire enough for local (or right to work) hires only to be a real restriction.
When we interview and make hiring decisions, the right to work is completely irrelevant to us. We already pay the staff who sorts out the paperwork, and our organization is sufficiently staffed such that we’ll never hire someone suboptimal just because they could start work quickly.
reactor_sa
Executive Member
Yeah, where as for like Australia and NZ you can at least get PR without having a job offer first. UK doesn't have a skills shortage visa that doesn't involve a company sponsor.
Well, there’s the Tier 1 visa.
I think the UK closed the points based emigration visa a while ago - the highly skilled migrant program. I think any remaining Tier 1 visas are unfortunately not points based.
Yeah, I was referring to the exceptional talent or investors visa. There’s also the new entrepreneur visa (that replaces the T1 entrepreneur visa).
Hi Guys,
Has anyone here had to apply for the EEA family permit. Allows a non EU/UK person to live and work in the UK/EU with their spouse.
We are busy with this but some of the requirements are to have paid for flight bookings and hotel/accomodation reservations. I'm a bit wary to do this not knowing the timelines this will take.
Has anyone here had to apply for the EEA family permit. Allows a non EU/UK person to live and work in the UK/EU with their spouse.
We are busy with this but some of the requirements are to have paid for flight bookings and hotel/accomodation reservations. I'm a bit wary to do this not knowing the timelines this will take.
AchmatK
Honorary Master
Which country are you doing the application in and which eu country is your partner from?
South Africa, EU SO.
The EEA ?
Yes, I am trying to think back - i'll check my emails.....
Applied in May-17, got the result middle of June-17.
Bought tickets a week later - end of June-17.
If I recall, I only booked the flights after receiving the EEA Permit in Passport.