COS Allocation Vs Cos Assign

[ronychy2010]

Hi,
I am the only T2 (G) migrant in my company and my visa is due to extend at September-2017. After initial 3 years T2 (G) Visa, I will apply for another 2 years.

I know every year company needs to allocate COS if they need a new migrant to sponsor and allocated COS runs out between 6 april to 5 april of the following year. For existing T2 (G) migrant they don't need to do that until i need to extend my Visa. As hopefully I am going to apply for visa extension at August-2017, what is the right time to apply for COS allocation in Sponsorship management system?

what i understood is that my company has to apply for COS allocation before 5th April-2017 and that allocated COS can be assigned to me on August-2017 during my VISA extension time. Please Correct me if im wrong.

There is a confusion between COS Allocation & Cos Assign in my mind.

Thanks a million.

[iworker]

you understood correctly..

In Jan, Feb and March, the company will get notification to apply for cos allocations for next year. They will need to ask for next year cos during that time. However, if they dont ask at that time, they can ask after april too, but best to ask in Feb time, for next year allocation.. i.e, April 2017-April 2018.
once that is done, they can assign u the cos closer to time.
The catch is, in April, they need to confirm that they have been allocated cos for that year.