Tier 2 work visa - application process.

By 1st 4Immigration - #1 UK Immigration Experts -

STEP 1 of 3: SPONSOR LICENCE

If a company wishes to sponsor you it has to have a Tier 2 Sponsor Licence. All Tier 2 sponsors can be found on the official Register. If a company does not have a licence yet they can make an application to obtain it. Our company can help with such applications, including when a licence is needed urgently, such as when the migrant’s current UK visa is about to expire. Our ‘record’ is 3 working days from the point of submission to the Home Office, although we cannot guarantee it in each case!

Sponsor licence is issued for the company, it is not connected to the migrant (not connected to the employee). A licence is, in general, for the company to sponsor migrant workers.

 

STEP 2 of 3: CERTIFICATE OF SPONSORSHIP (COS)

Once the company has a licence,  an authorised person can login to the Home Office system and assign a certificate of sponsorship. Such a certificate will be about an individual migrant, with his/her name, passport details, job details, salary etc.

This is where your Sponsor has to put a job title, occupation code (SOC code) and specify your salary. The trick is to get it right, otherwise your application will be refused. Getting a COS does not mean getting a visa!

Not every job can be sponsored, generally it has to be a skilled Level 6. It also requires a minimum salary, a requirement which has so far created a great deal of confusion. There is a minimum salary of £20,500 yet some applications with that salary are refused. Why? Because this is just a ‘minimum’ and not the exact calculation. Even a thing like a number of hours of work per week is very important. Plus there are New Entrant and an Experienced levels. Contact us for an advice session, we have plenty of experience with this!

For more details please visit our website:  http://www.1st4immigration.com/tier-2-work-permit.php For an individual advice please contact us for an advice session, over email (by the end of the next working day) or face-to-face at our office: info@1st4immigration.com  , we reply on the same working day!

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