IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR BOTH 1. Contracts 2. Umbrella companies In ONE COMPANY. You are doing it wrong. You have to FIRST get a contract using services of any placement agencies and then the UMBRELLA company will help you get tier 2 for your ALREADY AVAILABLE contract. If there is any umbrella compan...

The whole matter is having a contract first.

If you have a contract ALREADY at hand, only then the umbrella companies will arrange tier 2 sponsorship for you.

If you have contracts, I know number of companies providing tier 2 sponsorship and I can send you their details in PM.

There are some companies which say that they will get you visa first and then they will give you time to search for contract works, THIS IS scam, do not go for those companies.

Spam 8 or Spam is one of those companies.

It depends on type of institute you are getting admission in, if your institute is HEI then you and your dependent have chances of getting a work entitlement.

Also, 1 year rule seems valid

If you are an American, you would not have problems re-entering UK any time, why don't you ask UKBA to send your passport back, if you really need to visit your home country, go and do it and come back. I'm not sure but I think you can apply from inside the UK again.

You certainly fall in the 5 years cap as we all know what you have done. You have been stretching time by acquiring admissions so that you complete time scale for ILR :) And now having known that your appeal will be rejected, you just want to put off the matter so that you complete the time scale an...

It is better to get it corrected by your sponsor. Things may not confuse now, but later at any stage.

Hello, I'm an experienced worker and have been to UK for quite some time now. I have recently come across a legally illegal scam that many established companies perform. You can only get or switch to tier 2 once you have a valid job offer, but some companies, naming themselves as umbrella companies ...