Just a quick update. My previous post was following a telephone conversation with my mother once she arrived at the airport. My mothers visa is a standard multiple entry 5 year visa, with a maximum stay of 6 months (180 days). She arrived with a confirmed 6 month return flight ticket. Today on arriv...
My mother holds a 5 year multiple entry visitor visa to the UK. She spent 5 months between March-July 2006 in the Uk and travelled to the US. She returned to the UK in Dec 2006 and returned back to India in Jan 2007. Due to unforseen circumstances she needed to come back to the UK to see us. She arr...
Thanks JAJ, I should have clarified. We both are applying for naturalisation. We both have to prove residential requirements and hence have to submit our passports. I agree that employer letters will add more weightage to the residence requirement (if employed for 5 years or over). In my case, I can...
Guide AN for naturalisation application states the following for the residential requirements. Evidence of lawful residence during the 5 (or, if the applicant is married to a British citizen, 3) years before the date of the application l The applicant’s passports OR say why you are unable to provide...
After all, why did the Government introduce HSMP at all? To give a route to highly qualified people to work in the UK without needing a WP. If NHS Trusts are ignorant about the way an HSMP extension is easy to achieve for someone who is working, then surely some education of NHS Trusts needed. John...
John, Not sure I am understanding the point? Are you saying that some posts are fixed term and if the person does not have LTR of that length they are not getting appointed Precisely! As of today, following HSMP approval, an individual gets 2 year LTR, followed by 3 years after showing suitable econ...
Thanks aboudi and John. I checked about this as well and clearly they have a right to work. But what about the HSMP individuals not considered to have a right to work if the job is question is longer than their LTR? I'm fairly sure that HSMP approved individuals using this forum would have been offe...
This job is unlikely to attract a work permit. Applications from candidates who require a permit to work in the UK may not be considered if there are a sufficient number of other suitable candidates. Certainly discriminatory, but given the legitimacy of the immigration rules, it is considered fair....
The issue with HSMP and employment of doctors is now clear. Please see the following guidance: http://www.nhsemployers.org/workforce/workforce-723.cfm#question513 An HSMP visa holder will only be considered in par with UK/EEA applicant to be employed in a NHS training job if his/her current leave to...
Thanks Cool and sushdmehta, We are aware of the NHS employers website and their FAQ section. Nonetheless, the trusts are intrepreting the rules as they wish and certainly have rejected a number of candiates who had already been through a step1 selection process in the GP training scheme. We are wait...
As you may be aware, new immigration regulations have been introduced for overseas doctors in training, so as to require workpermit to work in the NHS. Some doctors may be exempt from workpermit, such as HSMP or dependents, to be able to secure a job. However, a number of NHS trusts, when considerin...
Sher, How long does your friend want to bring her in-laws to the UK? The usual option most people take is to apply for a family visitor visa for the grandparents (after your friend comest into the UK) so that at least they get 6 months visa to stay with their grandchild. Is that not an option? Moder...
House jobs or Internships, as they are called in many countries, is the equivalent of the pre-registration house officer post in the UK. If the case worker guidance lists the pre-registration house officer post as graduate experience, so is the internship. Sometimes, an internship is also undertaken...
webhunter wrote: No matter what, I don't think the rules are made for 'time pass'. they have a good reason to impose a rule. All of us may beat around the bush about "equal opportunity" , but if thousands of ppl are applying for only a few available jobs who should be given priority? Imagi...
Stedman, I totally agree with the fact that it is difficult to prove that discrimination is taking place unless one can bug the interview room. The real truth is that no nonEEA doctor will ever get to the interview room in the first instance. The latest job advert for the Anaesthesia Specialist Regi...
John, Of couse HSMP will be the best status to have (THEORITCALLY) to secure a training job. However, many NHS trusts are interpreting the new immigration rules as they wish. Many trusts are now only considering applications from UK/EEA nationals first before even considering other nonEU doctors who...
I'm amazed by the insensitive comments made by webhunter and mhunjn. The new immigration rules certainly spell doom for thousands of non-EU doctors currently in the NHS training system. The fact that a doctor in a training grade in the NHS is now said to be in "employment" happened overnig...
Applied today in Liverpool: ILR granted. There was no issue with regards to my qualifying period as I was within 28days of the 4 year period. The PEO checking team nor the interviewer raised any query about the LTR expiry period. (I do not think that it was an oversight) Documents checked: - Employe...
Thanks Paul. The application form per se[ "SET (O)"] has no reference to this guidance about applying within 28 days of leave expiry. It only mentions the 28day rule for completing the qualifying period. I only happened to see it in the PEO pages of the website. Hypothetically consider som...
Moderators, please note, although I have had a query about the ILR policy, the following thread is on a different topic. Hope you dont lock this :!: The following statment is an extract from the IND guidelines on making an application at the PEO (http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/ind/en/home/contact_...
Pankaj, Question : While she is here with me, can her 3 year old baby see the NHS doctor/services (if needed). Yes. However, they are likely to pay for non-emergency treatment irrespective of your immigration status. You can find helpful information from http://www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance/Intern...
koshynita, Will applying for HSMP jeopardise my ILR based on 10 year rule since its a different visa Not at all. As long as the entire 10 year period has been in lawful immigration categories, it should be fine. Will my original permit free visa still be valid until 2008? If you switch to HSMP leave...
I previously posted about my query about applying for ILR after workpermit employment with only ~6 weeks of continuing employment. I wrote to the Ind Policy unit asking about clarification about the "continuity" of employment, i.e. whether it needs to be indefinite or could it be shorter. ...
I previously posted about my query about applying for ILR after workpermit employment with only ~6 weeks of continuing employment. I wrote to the Ind Policy unit asking about clarification about the "continuity" of employment, i.e. whether it needs to be indefinite or could it be shorter. ...
