Colling of period clarification --ICT Long Term staff

Dear,

I am in uk on a ICT Long Term staff sub category since dec 2014. I have now ben offered a new job where teh employes is ready to provide a Restricted CoS.
I checked the Tier 2 Policy Guidance (Version 11/2015) https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... 1_2015.pdf

and found the following text

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a Tier 2 (Intra-Company Transfer) applicant in the Long Term Staff sub-category will be
granted leave up to five years. You will not be able to extend your stay beyond five
years (or nine years for any staff earning £155,300 or more) and you will not be able to
re-apply to return to the UK under an Intra-Company Transfer category until 12 months
after your last leave as an Intra-Company Transfer expired or 12 months after you left
the UK, whichever is sooner, unless you will be paid an annual gross salary of
£155,300 or higher or where you were only being sponsored in Tier 2 (as recorded by
the Certificate of Sponsorship, for a period of three months or less.
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As per my interpretation of the above, If I go back to my home country and apply for a visa under a non-ICT category i.e. Tier 2 General [the new job offer already have provisions to provide CoS], I don't have to fulfill the cooling off criteria.

Please suggest if the above is correct?

Thanks and regards,
Sunny

sabikhi wrote:

As per my interpretation of the above, If I go back to my home country and apply for a visa under a non-ICT category i.e. Tier 2 General [the new job offer already have provisions to provide CoS], I don't have to fulfill the cooling off criteria.

Please suggest if the above is correct?

Thanks and regards,
Sunny

No, this is not correct.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... 1_2015.pdf

Look at point 73, page 22.