100 work permits issued per day!

**insight14** · 18 July 2005, 10:31

Shock and horror. Man the battlements.

**Francko** · 18 July 2005, 10:50

How come so many people come in January. Now, that's interesting.

**hyperD** · 18 July 2005, 11:03

Originally posted by insight14

Shock and horror. Man the battlements.

Raise the drawbridge. I mean the prices.

**WageSlave** · 18 July 2005, 11:21

Does 'new' issue exclude renewals?

**sunnysan** · 18 July 2005, 11:44

Work permits

its relatively simple to get a work permit if you have an employee that is willing to sponser you. It always helps it you have a degree etc but the process can be manipulated so that, for example, if someone is working as waitress and the have a willing employer.

If you have a willing employer you can nearly always present the person in a light that, according to home office criteria they will be issued a work permit.

The emplyer has to advertise but the dont have to emply any of applicants and once the required time running the advertisment is over, they can justify that they cannot find a suitable applicant in the EU labour pool.

I would be interested in how many where actually realted to IT skills.

**Not So Wise** · 18 July 2005, 12:36

Does that include or exclude the Aussie,Kiwi and such Working Holiday (or whatever they are calling them now) visas?

**AtW** · 18 July 2005, 14:35

Originally posted by sunnysan

its relatively simple to get a work permit if you have an employee that is willing to sponser you. It always helps it you have a degree etc but the process can be manipulated so that, for example, if someone is working as waitress and the have a willing employer.

Yeah real easy -- if the firm on behalf of which that "employee" applies is unknown to Home Office, ie have not applied before for work permit, then the firm need to show I believe audited accounts for last 3 years. Not sure what's HO's practice in regards of newly created firms that have no accoutn no nothing, but from what I understand this means no chance of issueing work permit.

By the way, NEW work permits include IN-COUNTRY CHANGES, ie when I changed my job from ex-ex-empoloyer to ex-employer I needed "NEW" work permit, but I was not a NEW person in the country.

**hattra** · 19 July 2005, 07:50

Things might be changing

It would be interesting to get those figures again, in another few months time, because it looks as if government policy has changed.

Mrs Hattra regularly has to get work permits for medical doctors, and up until about a month ago, there were all sorts of abuses "slipping through" the system. The most common one was entering the UK on a tourist visa, and then finding a job while in-country and applying for it - this is actually illegal, but lots of foreign doctors were being allowed to get away with it. However, in the last four weeks, three of the doctors at her hospital have been told to leave the country, because a "review" of their case has shown that they had done just that. And yesterday, they rejected another doctors work permit application, even though she's actually sponsored by the UK Government on an international exchange program, and has been given extended leave to stay by the Foreign Office - so now she can stay in the country for the next 3 years, but can't work!

Unfortunately, the hospital departments involved (usually the ones run by foreign consultants) keep lodging formal complaints about Mrs. Hattra (once of racism), when it's nothing to do with her. None of them are ever upheld, but it gets very stressful for her.

**AtW** · 19 July 2005, 14:09

Tourists not allowed to switch status in-country, unless its asylum, never heard of doctors getting better treatment -- they have easy ways in anyway to do that. I think Govt is just sh1t scared that one of the immigrants who was let in without 100% passes formalities will turn out a terrorist -- imagine headlines in the Sun talking about failed non-deported asylum seeker turning a bomber?

100 work permits issued per day!