May applicants, please respond!

f2k · Post by **f2k** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 9:14 am

kt wrote:Hi all, Any response for any of the mid or late May applicants?
Mine reached on May 27, so far no news.
cheers
kt

I would say give it another 3 weeks

MWazir · Post by **MWazir** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 9:43 am

kt, Do you know when payment was deducted from your account? The application would have reached on the 27th but a more certain way of determining when your application will come up for processing is to find out when payment was taken. Until then, your application would not have reached the processing queue.

As f2k said, It would take atleast another 3 weeks.

kt · Post by kt » Wed Nov 17, 2004 12:10 pm

Hi, I am not sure about the date payment was deducted but the ref. no given to me is 0192XX.
cheers
kt

MWazir · Post by **MWazir** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 12:14 pm

A few more weeks now, just wait patiently. Good luck!

Boom05 · Post by **Boom05** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 12:47 pm

Yeah, I think patience is the word truly

. this is the mail i received from HO today on enquiry for the decision on my application. So its wait and see;
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Dear Sir,

Thank you for your enquiry.

According to our records, your application reached this office on 18th
May,2004. The process is on-going and as yet, no decision has been made. The Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP) Team is currently
experiencing a significant increase in the number of applications being received. As a result this has led to a short-term backlog of applications waiting to be considered.
The situation is being addressed and a number of steps andmeasures are being introduced with the aim of returning service levels to published standards. Some applicants or their representatives may have some progress issues that they would like to raise and the HSMP team will endeavour to address them.
However, in order to enable the team to focus its efforts and resources
on considering applications, it would help if enquiries were kept to a
minimum. We apologise to those applicants who may be experiencing delays and can reassure everyone that our aim is to consider applications as soon as possible.

If you have access to the internet please visit the .workingintheuk.gov.uk website, click on 'Schemes & Programmes' in the black bar and then 'Highly Skilled Migrant Program' on the left side for further information on this avenue. This page also contains the current
date the HSMP team are working on.

Kind Regards,

f2k · Post by **f2k** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 2:01 pm

Boom05,
thats rather strange, i thought they had already Started applications from the 18th, someone on this forum who applied on the 18th of May said he received an email requesting further documents. I am not sure whether he is in country or out of country. But my theory now is that they are processing in country applications first.

At least they claim to be taking steps to sort out the “SHORT TERM” backlog, if they consider 6 months to be ‘short term’ then we are in trouble

MWazir · Post by **MWazir** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 2:33 pm

Boom5,
The last days of waiting are the most difficult

The result of your application should be out any day now. Good luck and let us know the outcome.

Raji · Post by **Raji** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 10:49 am

Happy to write that i received my HSMP approval today by POst. it took the post a week to reach Melbourne from the UK.

My app date : 6th May
received on 11th May
claimed 85 points : 25edu, 35 exp, 25(earnings)
no further docs asked, but NARIC was asked to assess my degrees (from Indian universities)

Was told of the decision on 12th Nov when I phoned HSMP

Now I have to apply for my visa.

Thanks to everyone for help.

I am in the IT industry and hope to be in London around mid-jan to start my job search.

ND · Post by ND » Mon Nov 22, 2004 11:04 am

Congrats Raji ... All the very best to you in you Job Search.

Raji · Post by **Raji** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 2:20 am

Thanks, ND.

My experience is in programming for finance cos in VB, Sybase, SQLServer. Any pointers that might help in my job search. I'm going to leave Aus by mid Dec.

Also is Dec15-Jan15 a quiet period in the UK for recruitment? I ask because it is certainly not worth applying for jobs during that period in Aus.

Any help is appreciated

ND · Post by ND » Tue Nov 23, 2004 9:39 am

Raji,

If u are in finanacials industry that will be a + for u ... and the remaining things it depends how strong u are in those languages,DBs.I would say in UK recruitement will be very slow from Dec15 - Jan5'th this is according to me ... but you can start applying from jan 5'th itself.

So I would suggest you to come here byt end of december and settle down for a week,study the market ...etc and from jan5'th u are ready to go ...

Hope this helps ...

Alagomeji · Post by **Alagomeji** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 12:55 pm

I personally beleive that the market speeds up around February/march, many people are still in the holiday mood in January. But then again, I'm not a recruitment consultant. Go with your gut friend, or with superior experience.

ND · Post by ND » Tue Nov 23, 2004 1:09 pm

Feb/March will be late according to me.I know so many people working in IT here and we ourselfs are giving offers to start from jan 5'th ... i dont think the recruitment will stop if there is real necessity.

It will defnitely stop from Dec 15'th -Jan 5'th.And one of my very close friend got a job at the end of jan 2004.And another one is taking up contract work next week.

And the rest is upto u...

Alagomeji · Post by **Alagomeji** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 1:11 pm

ND: I stand corrected. Raji: There you are, make that move.

MWazir · Post by **MWazir** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 1:12 pm

I agree with ND. The recruitment will start again early Jan and not Feb/March. It will be non-existant during the Christmas time. Having said that, last year we contracted a DBA for 2 months starting 22th December 2003

Alagomeji · Post by **Alagomeji** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 11:26 am

Well? May Applicants?

MWazir · Post by **MWazir** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 2:44 pm

Alagomeji wrote:Well? May Applicants?

There dont seem to be too many active May applicants in this forum

Nousky · Post by **Nousky** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 5:18 pm

mwazir wrote:
Alagomeji wrote:Well? May Applicants?
There dont seem to be too many active May applicants in this forum

We are all waiting I supposed. No approval received yet.
Has anyone received approval for MAY????

Nousky

f2k · Post by **f2k** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 8:55 am

According to the update that came up on wednesday, i would think that most applicants from may have been covered. so we should hopefully in the next week of so be getting news from the June applicants

ashfaq · Post by **ashfaq** » Mon Nov 29, 2004 9:46 am

Hi,

I sent my application on May 25, 2004 which was recieved on May 28, 2004 by HO and they alloted ref# 0194XX. Now I want to check status of my application, In this board I saw phone number where number of application called and got info about their application status. Would anyone share that phone number?

Ashfaq

zia · Post by **zia** » Mon Nov 29, 2004 9:50 am

Dear Ashfaq

My application date is also 28 May with ref # 194**.

From Lahore, Pakistan

Plz do inform if u recieve any info. Thanks

By telephone: 0114 274 3306
By fax: 0114 274 3103
By e-mail: hsmp.workpermits@ind.homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

MWazir · Post by **MWazir** » Mon Nov 29, 2004 9:51 am

ashfaq,

As per their website,
http://www.workingintheuk.gov.uk/workin ... /hsmp.html?

If you have a case specific enquiry, please contact the HSMP team:

By telephone: 0114 259 1894
By fax: 0114 259 3827
By e-mail: hsmp.workpermits@ind.homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

By post:

HSMP PO Box: 3468 Sheffield

Boom05 · Post by **Boom05** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 9:13 am

0114 259 1894

gunjans · Post by **gunjans** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 9:43 am

Hi Boom05,

Can u tell which no did u call for enquiry

TIA

Boom05 · Post by **Boom05** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 9:57 am

0114 259 1894

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