RobinLondon:

Thank you for the discussion and well wishes. You are right, need to fight the right battles. I'll take it as far as my MP does, but with the expectations that this will go nowhere.

It is really bizarre that the government would want to penalize people who are obviously properly employed and paying taxes. I mean a WP requires you to have a sponsor company that feels you are worth the cost and effort of applying for a WP. This obviously means the WP holder is educated and mostly...

jei2:

Lucky triers? There are some who have got through?

I entered the UK from Canada on a 5 year intra-company work permit early Nov 2005, with the expectation that in my fourth year I would be able to apply for and get ILR. Obviously this has changed now so that I can only apply for ILR after 4 years and 11 months. What I don't understand is why the .go...