Applying for Tier 5 (YMS) - Previously Received Visa

[TWE84]

Hi,

I qualify for a Tier 5 - YMS Visa, save for one potential issue - I have been granted a Tier 5 YMS Visa before. I obtained a Tier 5 visa in April 2011; however, obtained sponsorship for my current position before leaving Australia to come to the UK and have not entered the UK on the Tier 5 Visa.

The Immigration Law states:

245ZK. Requirements for entry clearance
Requirements:
...
(g) The applicant must not previously have spent time in the UK as a Working Holidaymaker or a Tier 5 (Youth Mobility Scheme) Temporary Migrant.

On my reading of this, I shouldn't have a problem as I have not previously spent time in the UK as a Tier 5 Temporary Migrant.

I would be interested to know if anyone else has come across this issue previously or have any thoughts as to how this might be treated by the UKBA.

Thanks

Tim

[angleblue63]

The thorny issue is with the moving to Unmarried Partner from the Tier 5 visa, which depending on your sources is either possible or impossible. I noted that several other people have posted to say it is possible, but both myself and my partner called UK Border Agency today and spoke to different people who both said unequivocally that she would have to leave the country if she wanted to live in the UK past her Tier 5 visa date.

[wf]

The thorny issue is with the moving to Unmarried Partner from the Tier 5 visa, which depending on your sources is either possible or impossible.

According to the immigration rules it is 100% possible. People who answer phone queries at UKBA are notoriously unreliable.