hag9 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 10, 2021 12:10 pm
Your employer will also need to say that your contract still has at least 2 more years.
Is this specified somewhere?
Now I am in a similar situation: I have been working as a Research Associate in a Horizon 2020 project (EU funded project) at a HE institution in the UK in the last two years.
My contract is about to expire, but the consortium has asked to the EC for a six-month extension to the project and it has been approved. My employer has also agreed to extend my contract, but not sure yet the lenght of this extension, I can only assume it will be tied to the duration of the project.
One of the next steps is to include an amendment to the original grant agreement where names of new members working within the different partners will be added, including mine.
Questions:
1) With my name in the amendment (but not in the original grant agreement), is it sufficient to seek endorsement to switch from Tier 2 (now Skilled Worker) visa to a GTV with the same employer? My T2 visa will expire in 2023.
2) Is there any specific requirement in terms of the lenght of the employment contract for the researcher to apply for a GTV?
The Royal Society route 3 -Endorsed funders- mentions the lenght of the grant.
"a copy of the grant award letter(s) that support your work. The letter must confirm that:
-The grant or award is worth a minimum of £30,000.
-The grant or award covers a minimum period of 2 years."
But I could not find anything related to the lenght of the employee's contract. This project started three years ago and funding is several millions of ££.
It is worth to mention that I don't have a PhD yet, so I am not sure if this is a "mandatory" requirement. The guidelines from the endorsing bodies for routes as a scientific researcher use the term "post-doc" or similar basically everywhere, but I am sure that there's more people working in "post-doc" positions with a MSc degree, like my case.
