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by watashimo12 » Thu Feb 05, 2015 10:45 am
hi,
thanks for your email. I am not applying for IT job, its Tier 2 General with Resident Labour Market Test and Restricted COS.
its taking ridiculously long and thats something to worry about indeed. i have been waiting for 5 months plus, and even though they have visited my employer recently i don't think i will get a decision very soon.
i wish i read up in this forum before applying as if i knew it would take more than 5 months to get a decision i wouldn't apply at all.
if your employer has a licence for quite a while and already had home office visits, they might not delay in deciding your application. but thats just a guess, nothing else. otherwise once they receive a visa application the UKVI asks the Home Office to conduct a site visit where they will ask more than 100 questions. The problem is, Home Office is operating with shortage of staff and any such site visit takes 4 to 5 months from the day requested. things does not finish just yet, the staff has to write a report (with the 100 answers with a summary i guess!) and then that report is used to make a decision! the way UKVI is running, they have quite a backlog of everything so when that report comes back it lays around for a while before someone pulls it out to make that 'Valuable Decision"!!
the statistics say they are refusing 37% of all tier 2 visa applications to show that they are trying to control 'immigration". i hear they give quite 'bogus reasons' when refusing an applications nowadays. they even gave more power to the case workers recently to refuse applications if they 'Thought there was something wrong" which totally overrides the whole idea of Point Based System!
anyways, if you don't have to leave your current employment while you wait for the decision you should be fine. but once applied you won't be able to do anything to get a decision. it could take as long as they wish!
hope this helps!
Hasan