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Cooling off period: Tier 2 (Can anyone clarify)!!

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Cooling off period: Tier 2 (Can anyone clarify)!!

Post by plabo » Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:33 am

Hello

With regards to this statement:

"The government is also limiting the total amount of temporary leave that may be granted to a Tier 2 migrant to 6 years, Similarly a new ‘cooling-off period’ across all the Tier 2 routes will be enforced from April 6. Tier 2 migrants will need to wait for 12 months from the expiry of their previous visa before they may apply for a further Tier 2 visa."

I have been granted a 3 year (Tier 2) General Visa starting from this March. My 3 years will end in March 2015. Thus will I be able to apply for an extension of (Tier 2) for another 3 years WITHOUT going through the "Cooling off period" because this law is to be implemented from April 2016 onwards, is this right?

Can anyone clarify please.

plabo
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Post by plabo » Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:45 am

can someone please clarify this..

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Post by Khurram545 » Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:02 pm

as per my understanding ,after three years cooling off period will not be applied. it will if someone do not go for settlement or fail to do so then he/she will have to leave the UK and he/she will not be able to reapply for tier 2 up to next 12 months (cool off period)
Khurram

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