Your Advice Please

[Lazarus]

Just finished my degree and now I need a job. Cant work because I was an overstayer and my papers are currently with BIA.

The people who looks after my welfare are really fed up now of me and I need my own money.

Is there anyway I could get a job. Do you think I could ask BIA for a work permit or should i get my MP nvolved.

Been here 11 yrs now and papers with BIA 5 years now

Thank you

[Siggi]

This is a reality check for your mate.

Firstly, you are a overstayer (illegal)and at the risk of deportation and you are now in the hands of the BIA, who might decided deport you.

Secondly, I fully understand that anyone looking after has now a belly full.

I would advise you to return to your country of origin, with your degree and then try through regular means to either einter the UK with a work permit or seek work in your own country.

Life is hard and sooner you learn this the better, but you do have youth on your side, so goood luck.

[paulp]

If your situation is getting desperate, why don't you get your MP involved and ask for expediting a decision on your application. That way, you will know what you have to do.

I think there is a close-to-zero chance of getting permission to work while you are waiting.

[hamid84]

They don't allow you to work untill your case is sorted. My asylum case has been pending for over 7 years and now i cant study or work.

I know what you must be feeling but it's just the system.

[netacct]

What happens during that time frame?
I mean what people actually do and how they support themselves? just curious to know...

[hamid84]

To be honest and frankly speaking, most of us work. I am kinda professional in what i do so i work from home.