Hi My wife and I are coming to UK from India on 16th Feb on Tier 1 visa. We are planning to take a Travel insurance for some 3 - 6 months tenure, which we believe would be worst-case duration to get a job. Does anyone have any idea of a good travel insurance here in India? I know of icicilombard and...

Hi My wife and I are planning to come to UK on 16th Feb 2011 with Tier 1 visa and dependent. Please let us know any documents that we may need to show to the immigration officer at the port of entry at the London Heathrow Airport ( apart from the Passport/visa ). We are travelling from India. Also a...

Hi After entering UK with Tier 1 visa and dependent visa, can the main applicant leave the country without the dependent? Or is there any special procedure for doing so? Also is there any specific duration a dependent is allowed to live in UK without the main applicant residing in the country? Thank...

Thanks Ken

Thats what I have started doing.. I have created some 4-5 different formats and whenever required I just make minor changes to it and send it off..

Regards
Sankar

Hi I am using some of the job portals such as jobserve, jobsite, cwjobs etc to apply for the positions. All these websites ask for a cover letter as part of the applications and I am creating a relevant one for each one of them. But are these cover letters of any use when applying to the recruiters....

Hi LearningCurve and Ken, Thanks a lot for the advice. I have made a special mention in my resume that this is a local Skype number, which I have taken to facilitate any calls in the meantime. I understand the reasoning. My attempt also is not to con the agents and start my job search on the wrong f...

Thanks Ken. I researched for the call forwarding services that can give me a local number and found these sites.. http://www.tollfreeforwarding.com http://www.localphone.com/incoming_numbers http://www.windsor-telecom.co.uk/compare-phone-numbers.php http://www.ukdivert.com/services/international-ser...

Thanks a lot Ken for that informative reply.

Cheers
Balaji

Hi All First of all, this forum has been of great help! Kudos to all of you for keeping it alive.. I and my wife followed the advices in this forum and we have got our Tier 1 visas starting from Feb 15 2011 and planning to come to UK around the same time. Here is a small intro to my profile Experien...