Tier 2 - healthcare surcharge question, contract start date

[am87]

Hey everyone,

I'm on a Tier 2 (General) visa at the moment which is going to expire end of July 2015 so I need to apply for extension soon. I'm going to continue working for the same employer. I'm working through the application and i've noticed that theres a new healthcare surcharge that needs to be paid before the application can be made.

I have a question about something that's required in the form before the payment can be made.

So basically I went to https://www.immigration-health-surcharg ... ecker/type to check how much I had to pay.

I have 1 dependent, which is my wife, and we'll be applying together, so I picked the 2nd option i.e "Coming to the UK with dependants" and then I selected 1.

On the next page I have filled in all details until I got to the following questions:

What is your contract start date?
What is your contract end date?

I'm a little confused about what "contract date" means exactly. I'm sort of on a rolling contract i.e it renews itself periodically. I started working for my employer in 2011. So is the contract start date going to be the date when I initially signed my contract in 2011? Or is this some other date?

I'm really worried about that, any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Thankyou!

[FaeLLe]

Put the dates on the COS validity as start and end date.

Tier 2 visa is supposed to be for a fixed duration thereby your employer is technically supposed to hire you for a fixed term even if your employment is considered of a permanent nature.

[am87]

Thankyou for the reply!

I had a look at my COS recently on my employers SMS. I couldnt see any start end date, only my passport start and end dates.