manci wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 6:33 pm
bamblue wrote: ↑Tue Jun 29, 2021 3:29 pm
My CoS states that the weekly working hours is 25 hours, however my job is a full-time teaching role in a secondary school. Would this be a mistake? Since I am a teacher in a secondary school, I am not sure if this is how schools calculate working hours considered that we have summer/winter holidays as break.
No this is not a mistake, see the SW caseworker guidance p28
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u ... 2.0ext.pdf
teaching occupations (where weekly working hours are not consistent throughout the
year, due to term dates), you should ask the sponsor to confirm what proportion of a
full-time equivalent (FTE) the applicant is, and pro-rate the going rate accordingly.
bamblue wrote: ↑Tue Jun 29, 2021 3:29 pm
my case where I teach both shortage subjects (Spanish and French) and non-shortage subject (English), should this be regarded as a shortage occupation or not?
As you say, there is no guidance on this. Ask your sponsor why they considered your job a non-shortage occupation. If they are unsure ask them to contact the UKVI business helpdesk 0300 123 4699 or email
Businesshelpdesk@homeoffice.gov.uk
Thank you Manci! This is so very helpful. I will definitely ask my employer to double check with UKVI using the contact you provided.
I also found that on my CoS the job type is missing, meaning that there is no occupation code selected. I find this quite shocking as I thought 'job type' is a mandatory question that sponsor has to complete before a CoS can be created. I honestly do not understand why on earth this happened as the CoS was already assigned. In this case, should I insist my employer to cancel the CoS and to create a new one, or it can be fixed by adding the code as a sponsor note? The published guidance states clearly that 'wrong occupation code' is a significant error, which means sponsor needs to cancel the CoS and re-create a new one. But it does not mention anything about missing occupation code...
Another potential mistake I found on the CoS is that my employer did not answer the question ‘if there is a legal requirement for the migrant to be registered with a professional or other official organisation in the UK’. Based on page 37 of the guidance
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u ... 1_v1.0.pdf, a valid CoS must contain
"professional registration details of the worker, if there is a legal requirement for them to be registered with a professional or other official organisation in the UK (for example, a doctor must be registered with the
GMC)"
Since Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) is a legal requirement to teach in maintained school (which my employer is), I think that my employer should have put down my teacher reference number here? However, although I am registered with the Teacher Regulation Agency for QTS, I am still waiting for my teacher training provider (my university) to inform the agency about my teacher training course result. So technically I am registered and can provide my teacher reference number as a sponsor note, but currently I am not qualified yet, although I will certainly be in August as soon as my uni updates the agency my course result. In this case how should the employer respond to this on the CoS?
