Very well-written, and thought provoking:


http://www.shrm.org/hrmagazine/articles ... 04doke.asp

Success! I just called the HSMP team --from the United States I dialled 011+44+114+259-1894 (the website requests that general questions be called in to the general inquiries line at WP and not to the HSMP team, but the general inquires line had a recording saying that customer service representativ...

The courier won't pick up from a post office box... my problem exactly. So -- what address shall I give to my courier company? (I have not yet submitted my application, but my courier company (DHL) suggests that, given the fact that the HSMP team will not sign any courier company documents, that I i...

Sigh... For purposes of arranging for DHL courier service pick up of my documents, I must fill-in the Air Waybill with the correct address to which the DHL pick-up guy must go to get my documents when ready. I know that I will send the documents to Doncaster. But what is the address from which docum...

Dear Friends, Another letterhead worry from your friend zeke... I recently received a letter for my HSMP application, a letter showing Senior experience, and very important to my application. It is signed by a Human Resources official of my former employer. However, it is printed on paper with the l...

Thank you, Kayalami. :wink: it seems like a little thing, but I don't want to lose sleep over the safety of my documents... So-- it is perfectly acceptable for me to write in my preferred mailing address under "current address", even though the "contact address" in the payment sl...

Kayalami, I am applying from the United States, and I do trust my post service in my home country. What I am confused about is whether HO will return documents/approval letter to an address other than my residential address -- for example, the address of a family member who lives in my city., (or I ...

Forgive me folks, I seem to recall reading about this on this board some time ago, but now I can't find it, even after doing several searches: Regarding "contact address" on payment slip vs. "current address" on page 1 of HSMP application form --contact address is for billing arr...

dcguy wrote, " Aslo, thanks F2k and Sergio 39 for finding/posting the 16 March press release on the HO confirmation of the 2 tier approval system we all had figured out ." Can anyone tell me how to find that March 16 press release -- I have searched in the immigrationboards.com archive, as...

JackPot,

see my post at

http://www.immigrationboards.com/viewto ... 7155#17155

for some other useful links.

deborahCo and lynn132,

The two of you always seem to know the kind of information I need.

Thank you both for your prompt and helpful replies.

lynn132 -- where did you find the specific information about parameters for time spent in the UK in order for it to be the "main home"?

MunneRaja,

The link you have posted is helpful, very much so.

Thank you. It is just what I have been looking for!

Three of my employment letters are from businesses which no longer exist. However, I was able to find individuals who supervised me in each of those jobs; these individuals wrote letters for me on their current letterhead (one of the individuals is now retired and wrote his letter on his personal le...

Greetings! Here are my questions: 1. When writing my budget/list of expected costs, is it advisable for me to consider income tax and its impact on my monthly income? (I have found some weblinks that I think will enable me to approximate my income tax liability). what about NI tax? (I will probably ...

Thank you all for your replies and not thinking that I am overly zealous in bringing this up as a possible problem! I think that the ultimate reassurance for me is that marr1a got correspondence from Home Office itself and its letters were written as I have described mine as being written... also de...

By the way, what exactly does a bank reference letter from my bank in my home country consist of? What kind of information? ( I imagine it would include how long I have had the account, and whether I am a reliable customer, and my average balances??) Some of the online sources I am coming across say...

Friends, Your comments today have been most helpful and reassuring. I have been busy today writing my Sustaining Myself section of my HSMP application. I have a letter from the an employment agency about my expected income and 3 months' statements showing the balances from one of my bank accounts as...

Thank you both for your thoughtful replies. hsmphopeful, I agree with your response, except that my questions to HO are not for immigration advice, but clarification of how to understand their forms! -- unlesss that's the same thing as immigration advice. Otherwise, you are most certainly correct ab...

Friends, I don't see anything in the application form itself that asks for anticipated budget information. How do we know that HSMP Evaluation Team is looking for it? I do see in the Guidance Notes for HSMP that Question # 24.6 asks "Why do you need to know about my expected costs?" -- the...

Sigh ... So many things to worry about with HSMP application! Many of my employer letters which have more than one page use letterhead on the first page only . Subsequent pages are printed on plain paper, not even the same quality and color of the letterhead. (Although the paper color is similar to ...

In a couple of previous posts, I have talked about how I plan to count parttime work toward my elilgibility for HSMP. However, Saint has pointed out that it does indicate in the Guidance Notes that scoring is based on fulltime work -- Saint is concerned that parttime work may not be counted at all, ...

I don't know whether HSMP "allows" half-scoring for parttime positions. I am taking a risk here. It is simply a solution I have come up with for the problem that some of my experience is parttime -- I am assuming that HSMP is interested in fulltime work. Also, the Guidance Notes and WP web...

Great ideas from our friend Bani! JhonnyECU, I have a thought about "graduate level" work activity... The film for which you won the award -- how long did you work on it? In what context did you work on it? In other words, was it part of a school project, or was it part of a paid job, or w...

Congratulations on assembling new members of your team which will (hopefully) lend their support to your framing of your HSMP application!

Keep us posted on your progress!

I made a quick visit to www.skillset.org, and it looks to me like this is an organization very concerned about standardizing the kind and amount of skill utilized by workers in the audio visual media, and advocating for an increase of professionalism (formal skill sets) for this industry. see: http:...