If you do a SWOT,then going back home at present for career/money/family/quality of life is far better than blindly going for a different country. Well, I guess that kinda depends on 1) what you home country is, and 2) what your field is. You know, some people have received highly specialized educa...

I as a Tier 1 holder booked an appointment for Student Visa in French embassy in London thanks to my intermeidate knowledge of French. I am leaving here as a country who perefers liar refugees and gives them 2000 per week as housing benefit and thinks that the skilled workers are the reason that th...

I as a Tier 1 holder booked an appointment for Student Visa in French embassy in London thanks to my intermeidate knowledge of French. I am leaving here as a country who perefers liar refugees and gives them 2000 per week as housing benefit and thinks that the skilled workers are the reason that th...

[quote="Leema2010"]Hi All. I stumbled across this forum and read some of the stuff you all have been writing to help each other out and I found it very helpful! I am quite stressed out about my application situation as well and hope you can help me out too! I applied for my Tier 1 visa last month an...

aaa123 wrote:What are the English Language requirements for the dependents for the Tier 1 (General) visa holders? Do they or dependent have to present IELTS etc before they can apply for the dependent visa!!!

Thanks.

Not yet.

Maybe some time in October.

Dear all In March 2010 i applied for Tier 1 General. I had made an in person appointment at the home office and they refused me a visa because the amount on my payslips and the amount on my bank statements did not match (though i had earned more than what i had claimed for on my application). In Ma...

I'm sure this questions has been raised and answered previously but need to post again due to recent changes. I am in a dilemma as to whether I should apply for Tier 1 now or not? The problem is that I will easily get the Tier 1 right now as I am able to get 100 points plus but the question is how ...

Hi ldbright good thoughts, HSMP forum is not only for HSMP but it's also an immigration forum for Highly skilled migrants including Tier 1 and they have already taken the concerns of most of the Tier 1 holders to Home office , Have you seen their recent Press releases ? All the immigrant community ...

I came from the US. However, hopefully I'll be able to get ILR in January but still, no guarantees. This may be slightly off-topic, but having lived both in the US and in Europe for a number of years, I feel that if given a choice, I would move to the US, without giving a second thought. The proble...

I just have to ask this. Have any of you asked yourselves what is the point of staying in this country and going through all this when there are other countries in the EU and in other places where we could spend our time feeling welcome and working and living without uncertainity? I have gone to be...

[/quote]If you don't want any comment on your view, why write on a public forum? ====[/quote] Just to make it clear: the purpose of posting my letter was not to invite a discussion on whether my argument was "right" or "wrong". If I wanted to do it, I would have created a separate thread. The real r...

My point is that such changes should not apply to existing migrants. We all came here under completely different expectations; many of our dependents had to sacrifice careers to follow us here, under the assumption that at least they stay with us and work. Had it been made clear to us, from the out...

No you are not missing anything but only thinking too far away... if you are a Sneior IT professional with good experience then getting salary of 50-60K should not be a problem.. and being on Tier1(G) visa you can work for more than 1 employer thus chances of earning more money IS MORE... Take the ...

The introduction of such an uncertainty may have other detrimental implications. For example, suppose a Tier 1 General holder intends to find a new job about a year before their current visa will expire. One can imagine how difficult it will be for them to find an employer willing to take them on, ...

By the way, these are some of the concerns I mentioned in my letter to HSMP forum. People are welcome to use some of these ideas if they write to their MPs later. ******************************************** Regarding the recently published consultation paper by MAC, I would like to mention a few wo...

I agree.

Hi all I am 40+ and having good income from IT profession and can easily get tier 1 visa. However, getting an extension after 2 yrs in UK (FLR) looks nearly impossible as I will have to show an income of GBP 55000 during 12 months prior to applying for extension (35 points for master's degree, 5 po...

Saga wrote:By the way, who can give input to the MAC consultations ?

Are there any bodies representing Tier 1 holders? Can individuals give inputs?

Now, they don't care about your or my opinion. There is no option for us to send our feedback to MAC.

very unlikely .... 3-4 months is earliest i would say. One can only imagine how difficult it will be to get a mortgage if caps on extensions are introduced... It will be very difficult to find a job (who wants to employ a person with very uncertain prospects for extension?), let alone get mortgage....

pkumar wrote:very unlikely .... 3-4 months is earliest i would say.

One can only imagine how difficult it will be to get a mortgage if caps on extensions are introduced... It will be very difficult to find a job (who wants to employ a person with very uncertain prospects for extension?), let alone get mortgage.

How do you people know that TIer 1 extensions will be subjected to the cap after April 2011? Perhaps what the MAC were talking about was that anyone on Tier 2 or some other visa who switched into Tier 1 (switching from Tier 2 and extending their leave under Tier 1) would be subjected to the cap. I ...

You can submit your comments to UKBA.

To sushdmehta or anyone , I'm totally confused.Please, can you explain these two statements clearly.it would be a Great help to many people. Here they are, First Statement: "" You will be excluded from the limit if you are already in the UK under Tier 1 (General) and you apply for an extension, or ...

sushdmehta wrote:Immigration limit for Tier 1 (General) of the points-based system (extensions are excluded; PSW also excluded).
Immigration limit for Tier 2 (General) of the points-based system (ICT excluded).

regards

Excluded. Until April 2011.

My understanding of the cap is that it deals with new applications and entrants. The point of the cap is that the goverenment wants to limit the number of "new entrants" to the country. It's not talking about thousands of people already working and contributing to the country. All those who are pre...