RLMT and COS and Curtailment letter

[Vimalkiran]

Dear All

I am quite annoyed with my new company and upset with myself for rushing to hand in my resignation . I applied for a job whilst on Tier 2. The new company called me 02/02/2015 to say that i have been selected for the role after the interviews at the end of January. So below is a time scale of whats happened

Seen the ad for job from new company on internet and applied the same day- 30/12/2014
Ad start date 22/12/2014
Ad closing date 23/01/2015
called/emailed on 26/01/2015 to say i have an interview
Interview date/ tests- 29/01/2015
Confirmation of selection - 04/02/2015

Based on the confirmation I handed in my resignation to my current employer on 04/02/2015 evening (expected them to say you have to serve notice period etc..) and they came back to me the next day and said they don't even expect me to serve the notice period and can leave immediately if i wanted to, and they told me they will pay me 4 weeks of notice without working for them. It all sounded fine. Now i have started to liaise with my solicitor and and looked at the COS issued by the new company. Everything is fine, when i looked at the RLMT - they had put the ads on job center plus and indeed. Job center plus doesn't have a closing date , though on indeed where i applied it had a closing date of 23/01/2015. So i called the company to query on this as now my position is quite bad and they told me they will be taking the adverts off the website on Monday and when i go for the visa, home office cant check details but they can only see details of ads on the COS. But they had put the jobs ref, date posted etc on the COS and they also told me on job center plus they had put the closing date, but it wasn't visible at all for some reason. Also they told me they had done exactly same process for 2 other employees they had hired on tier 2 and they had got their visas.

Also the new employer said, they had home office compliance visits last year in june and they were happy with the way RLMT was conducted for other staffs and assured me theres nothing i need to worry about.


also am i correct in assuming my 60 days start from 05/02/2015 as my current employer would have reported this? They havent come back to me yet on this, but i am just figuring out.

Please advise i am overall quite worried right now.

Regards
Vimal

[moonlight55]

Once your employer reports your resignation to home office, they will take few days (or weeks) to process the request and then issue you a curtailment letter. They will then give you 60 days from the date this letter is issued (and not from the last working day). Nowdays, its taking around a month for such letters to be issued. Hence, you have approx 90 days from the day your old employer reports your status to home office.

[Vimalkiran]

Thanks Moonlight.

Also my query regarding the RLMT, do you think the closing date will be an issue when i go for the visa? Will they turn me down due to that?

Regards

Vimal

[moonlight55]

It depends on the case worker I guess. Personally, I don't think this will be an issue as long as RLMT requirements were carried out correctly. And if home office has any doubts, they have their own ways to verify the genuineness of the documents.

[Vimalkiran]

Thanks, that's some relief.

[arunfruity]

Thanks, that's some relief.

Dude how long did ur company take to issue you a COS after the advert closing date ? I got my offer letter in january 2015 but my employer called me and said I will have to wait for 28 days more since they will have to advert the job using job center plus website. 28 days gets over on feb 18 2015. I have done the same mistake as you by resigning my current job. Please do reply me mate that will be really helpful !

Thanks

[Vimalkiran]

Arun

Sorry to hear your position. Hope yours will be sorted all out soon. My cos was issued on 04/02/2015. I am currently awaiting my in person appointment at HO on 26/02/2015, so more waiting times!!

Regards
vimal

[manhood123]

Hi Vimal

Whats the update brother?

Thanks