Applying Work Permit

[mgkoko]

Hi everyone,

I've been to London for a year with a student visa which is valid up to 2009 and also eligible for work permit.
Now I have got job offer in a small IT company, and my position is web developer. They would like to apply the work permit for me.
I have got the degree from London Metropolitan University. (http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/) but I didn't recieve it in UK. I studied in a college in my country which joins with London Metropolitan Uni. When I finished and graduated, the degree is from London Metropolitan Uni. Is it gonna work?
I also heard that the job needs to be advertise properly. I found my job on gumtree.com website. They didn't advertise it anywhere else. Is that true? If it is, advertising on gumtree site is valid?
What documents do I need to provide? What is the best way to apply work permit?

Thank you in advance
Best Regard
MgKo

[avjones]

I don't understand what you mean by saying you are eligable for a work permit, could you explain?

Anyway, advertising on gumtree wouldn't be sufficent.

[mgkoko]

I don't understand what you mean by saying you are eligable for a work permit, could you explain?

Anyway, advertising on gumtree wouldn't be sufficent.

Sorry, eligible for work permit mean I can change my visa to work permit that is I can apply the work permit If I got the job offer.

If u have any questions, pls let me know

best regard
MgKo

[avjones]

Ah, I see what you mean.

Advertising on gumtree won't be enough. There are rules about how and where the job must be advertised. The company (it's a company which applies for the work permit, not the employee) must show that they complied with the advertising rules and that no EEA national qualified to do the job applied.

I don't know enough about the job to say - is it a job that is likely to have no other applicants if properly advertised?

IT isn't a shortage catagory.

[pantaiema]

Forget about advertising, etc. It is not your job. The first thing you need to do is find an employer who want to apply work permit for U, as U might apreciate that it is the prospective employer and not U need to file up the work permit application.



Pantaiema

Hi everyone,

I've been to London for a year with a student visa which is valid up to 2009 and also eligible for work permit.
Now I have got job offer in a small IT company, and my position is web developer. They would like to apply the work permit for me.
I have got the degree from London Metropolitan University. (http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/) but I didn't recieve it in UK. I studied in a college in my country which joins with London Metropolitan Uni. When I finished and graduated, the degree is from London Metropolitan Uni. Is it gonna work?
I also heard that the job needs to be advertise properly. I found my job on gumtree.com website. They didn't advertise it anywhere else. Is that true? If it is, advertising on gumtree site is valid?
What documents do I need to provide? What is the best way to apply work permit?

Thank you in advance
Best Regard
MgKo