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When Tier2 General gets cancelled, what happens to tourist visa

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Mmust
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When Tier2 General gets cancelled, what happens to tourist visa

Post by Mmust » Sun Feb 25, 2018 1:12 pm

I am on tier2 general sponsorship and will be quitting my job soon. I still had 4 years left in Tier2 visa which will be cancelled.
I have 5 year tourist visa from 2015 and valid till october 2020. Would that be still valid once tier2 is cancelled.
Can I depart and re-enter UK as a tourist?

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Post by Mmust » Sun Feb 25, 2018 1:20 pm

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Djsuccess
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Re: When Tier2 General gets cancelled, what happens to tourist visa

Post by Djsuccess » Sun Feb 25, 2018 5:08 pm

Mmust wrote:
Sun Feb 25, 2018 1:12 pm
I am on tier2 general sponsorship and will be quitting my job soon. I still had 4 years left in Tier2 visa which will be cancelled.
I have 5 year tourist visa from 2015 and valid till october 2020. Would that be still valid once tier2 is cancelled.
Can I depart and re-enter UK as a tourist?
From my understanding, you can only hold one immigration status at a time. I mean you can only hold one valid visa per time. That means your tourist/visiting visa would have been cancelled when you were issued a tier 2 visa.
I am not a lawyer and do not claim to be one. All my comments here are based on my opinions, experience and interpretation of the appropriate UKVI guidance documents and immigration rules.

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Casa
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Re: When Tier2 General gets cancelled, what happens to tourist visa

Post by Casa » Sun Feb 25, 2018 6:02 pm

Djsuccess wrote:
Sun Feb 25, 2018 5:08 pm
Mmust wrote:
Sun Feb 25, 2018 1:12 pm
I am on tier2 general sponsorship and will be quitting my job soon. I still had 4 years left in Tier2 visa which will be cancelled.
I have 5 year tourist visa from 2015 and valid till october 2020. Would that be still valid once tier2 is cancelled.
Can I depart and re-enter UK as a tourist?
From my understanding, you can only hold one immigration status at a time. I mean you can only hold one valid visa per time. That means your tourist/visiting visa would have been cancelled when you were issued a tier 2 visa.
Correct. The visitor visa is now void.
(Casa, not CR001)
Please don't send me PMs asking for immigration advice on posts that are on the open forum. If I haven't responded there, it's because I don't have the answer. I'm a moderator, not a legal professional.

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