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by sagareva » Fri Apr 17, 2015 3:09 pm
Fresh from the MAC consultation meeting.
Their report is not due until end of September 2015, so probably we are not looking at changes until November.
People on that committee are so far removed from reality, they could as well be on Mars.
They admitted to not having met with a SINGLE ONE Tier 1 Investor migrant -- despite, they claim, their best efforts -- while making recommendations to change that route.
And the sole entrepreneur at today's meeting was from this forum.
Some very agitated professor there was genuinely perplexed at apparently news to him that applications made at overseas posts are considered at posts (although he seemed to miss that the complain about incompetence in decision making, and inadequate skills and training of visa officers to assess genuiness in this category, that we were ALL making, relates to Sheffield as much, if not more, than to posts).
After that, when I mentioned that in many countries banking systems are so volatile that people will not keep 200 000 pounds on an account for 90 days, he embarked, unexpectedly, on an anti-Putin rant (directed apparently at me because I am Russian).
He said the system is supposed to benefit Britain, not rescue some Russians from their thug government, he literally said -- thug.
And of course they all kept talking about genuiness, completely ignoring the fact that original principles of points based system did not require that a person run the business day to day themselves, or that they have a business plan, only that they have the funds and comply with the rules.
Some colleagues made excellent points, and generally points across the advisors and lawyers were all exactly the same. So how come these MAC people are so clueless to thing everyone else in the room understands independently because they are obvious?
There will be a spillover consultation on the 28th, those who can please go. These people can sure benefit from meeting "actual migrants"? in fact they are asking anyone on t1E to get in touch who is willing to give their thoughts.
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