Hi There, The first thing you need to do is to keep away from lawyers and immigration consultants unless you have too much to shell out and risk losing out on getting your TIER1 altogether. Many of them including companies like employmentoverseas Limited(London Based) have goofed up many application...

No one has to stop working while a case is being processed. There is a six week time-frame in which you can remain in country after the expiry of your leave as long as the applicant re-applies with the correct documents within this time-frame after expiry. Please see my post on page 41 (http://www.i...

What were you doing mate? Hope you weren't sleep-walking when you applied. As it is, it's difficult enough to make sure that all your documents are in order and that they meet requirements. I'd be very surprised if someone didn't bother to have a look at what's changed on the HO website one last tim...

Hi All, I've just collected my documents from the post office (they'd left a card as I wasn't home when it arrived on 3rd-Sep 08). Got the Tier-1 valid through to 2011. The time lines were as follows: Posted: 26-Jun-08 Funds taken: 27-Jun-08 Called around 29th Aug and they said status was "under con...