Trivial increase to salary, reporting to Homeoffice

[oj.bulmer]

THis is what policy guidance says on salary increase:

15.7 (b) If there are any significant changes in the sponsored migrant’s circumstances, for
example:
• a promotion or change in job title, or core duties, other than those which need
a change of employment application; For more information, please see change
of employment;
• a change of salary from the level stated on the CoS, other than changes
due to annual increments or bonuses;
• a change of salary from that stated on the CoS due to maternity, paternity shared
parental or adoption leave, or a period of long-term sick leave lasting one month
or longer;
• the location they are employed at changes (including where a sports player moves
on loan).


I am due for extension and employer has increased salary to meet the threshold. But increase is trivial (less than 0.9% to annual salary). Should he notify to HO about this, or there is no need because it is not "significant change"?

If employer does notify anyway, then would the application be delayed to review this change? Will HO come back to employer to explain the increase etc?

[iworker]

no need to inform them

[terriblescream]

THis is what policy guidance says on salary increase:

15.7 (b) If there are any significant changes in the sponsored migrant’s circumstances, for
example:
• a promotion or change in job title, or core duties, other than those which need
a change of employment application; For more information, please see change
of employment;
• a change of salary from the level stated on the CoS, other than changes
due to annual increments or bonuses;
• a change of salary from that stated on the CoS due to maternity, paternity shared
parental or adoption leave, or a period of long-term sick leave lasting one month
or longer;
• the location they are employed at changes (including where a sports player moves
on loan).


I am due for extension and employer has increased salary to meet the threshold. But increase is trivial (less than 0.9% to annual salary). Should he notify to HO about this, or there is no need because it is not "significant change"?

If employer does notify anyway, then would the application be delayed to review this change? Will HO come back to employer to explain the increase etc?

Can be considered as annual increment, I've had Tier2 since 2013 and every year the salary increased. The first CoS and extension this year had about 11K difference. None of these were reported to HO and HO did not say anything, the extension came successful within 4 weeks of BRP enrollement

[oj.bulmer]

Can be considered as annual increment, I've had Tier2 since 2013 and every year the salary increased. The first CoS and extension this year had about 11K difference. None of these were reported to HO and HO did not say anything, the extension came successful within 4 weeks of BRP enrollement

I see, but then yours were annual increments (others in your company would have got theirs at the same time). Mine is only for me. Even if the employer doesn't report, not sure if I should mention this in my cover letter either...

Called UKVI today and they confirmed employer doesn't need to report it because "the change of fraction of percentage is not significant". I asked what is considered "significant", he told me there isn't a guideline for this but several thousands increase only happening for migrant (and not others) would be a significant change.

I don't have anything in writing though, the confirmation was on the phone call.

[terriblescream]

Not others as our company policy is the salary will be reviewed every 12 months from the date you joined but no gurantee an increase will be made so unless someone else joined at the same time, the dates would def differ.

Don't worry about it too much as it can still be considered as annual increase maybe it happened a bit late or employer decided this year they will increase the salary but previous years they did not.