Sushdmehta, I'm with an umbrella company at the moment. Although they do not put me on assignments. I get the contracts myself. So I'd say No 2 is closer to my situation. Although I can always register my own Ltd company if that will be needed to get my visa. Let me also add that my Umbrella company ...

I studied here in UK on a student visa, finished and got Tier 1 PSW and since then I've been working as an IT Contractor. Now it's time to switch and since Tier 1 (General) has closed to PSW, I can't switch to that. I don't have access to £200,000 funds so the only one I'm looking at is Tier 2 G ...