Can Cuban work in the UK?

confused.com1984 · Post by **confused.com1984** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:38 pm

I have a close friend living in Cuba who is looking to visit the UK to work for under 6 months. He has no problem getting an exit visa his end. Does anyone know if it is now possible to enter the UK to work, his is a professional dancer but is looking to do any sort of work in the UK.

meats · Post by **meats** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:40 pm

confused.com1984 wrote:I have a close friend living in Cuba who is looking to visit the UK to work for under 6 months. He has no problem getting an exit visa his end. Does anyone know if it is now possible to enter the UK to work, his is a professional dancer but is looking to do any sort of work in the UK.

Not without a work visa no. He can't work on a visitor visa.

confused.com1984 · Post by **confused.com1984** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:44 pm

thanks for the reply. Is it possible to get a work visa?

meats · Post by **meats** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:58 pm

confused.com1984 wrote:thanks for the reply. Is it possible to get a work visa?

Not as a professional dancer unless he's part of a show/professional dancegroup.

confused.com1984 · Post by **confused.com1984** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:18 pm

Yes this is what i thought.I have been looking at the new tier system and all that and it appears to be impossible to do temp work. He was not necessarily looking to dance here just do any type of temp work as he wanted to visit the uk but wanted to work whilst here so he did not have to sit around bored whilst we were all at work.

meats · Post by **meats** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:26 pm

confused.com1984 wrote:Yes this is what i thought.I have been looking at the new tier system and all that and it appears to be impossible to do temp work. He was not necessarily looking to dance here just do any type of temp work as he wanted to visit the uk but wanted to work whilst here so he did not have to sit around bored whilst we were all at work.

No work for him and if immigration suspect him of wanting to work here on his visitor's visa then they can refuse him entry and send him back to Cuba.

exlybris · Post by **exlybris** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:35 pm

Can someone please answer me...
I am Portuguese, and i want to go to uk work, with a cuban friend. My friend is legal in Portugal...but how does it work in UK? If he goes with me can he work there? I know he can in all countries of EU, but uk is not at the shengen treat...

can someone help me in this please?

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:01 am

exlybris wrote:Can someone please answer me...
I am Portuguese, and i want to go to uk work, with a cuban friend. My friend is legal in Portugal...but how does it work in UK? If he goes with me can he work there? I know he can in all countries of EU, but uk is not at the shengen treat...

can someone help me in this please?

He needs a UK visit visa and cannot work.

To the OP there's a woman who works in our local Morrison's from Cuba! I thought she was Polish....

exlybris · Post by **exlybris** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:20 am

is there any way he can work there?

meats · Post by **meats** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:40 am

exlybris wrote:is there any way he can work there?

With a work permit.

djb123 · Post by **djb123** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:54 pm

meats wrote:
exlybris wrote:is there any way he can work there?
With a work permit.

Or as the spouse/civil partner of someone settled in the UK

exlybris · Post by **exlybris** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:44 pm

if he goes with me on hollidays( he can go and dont need any visa because he lives in Portugal llegally) he can stay 3 months. Right? In these 3 months if he gets a job, does he get the permission to work?
thanks

exlybris · Post by **exlybris** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:13 am

And we have a civil partnership... can we recognize it in uk? and after that can we both work there?

meats · Post by **meats** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:29 am

exlybris wrote:And we have a civil partnership... can we recognize it in uk? and after that can we both work there?

He is in Portugal legally or illegally as it wasn't clear on your previous post?

And no, he still can't work in the UK on that basis as you're not settled in the UK.

exlybris · Post by **exlybris** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:31 am

HE IS LEGAL in Portugal, and we live together here.
So if i muove to uk and make me uk resident??

wunder · Post by **wunder** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:34 am

What is the basis for his stay in Portugal - uniÃ£o de facto?

exlybris wrote:So if i muove to uk and make me uk resident??

Yes, in this case he will be able to get dependant visa.

meats · Post by **meats** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:36 am

exlybris wrote:HE IS LEGAL in Portugal, and we live together here.
So if i muove to uk and make me uk resident??

You have to be in a bona fide civil partnership. You do realise that a civil partnership is for a couple of the same sex yes?

What visa does he have in Portugal?

wunder · Post by **wunder** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:37 am

meats wrote: You do realise that a civil partnership is for a couple of the same gender yes?

In Portugal civil partnership is possible for opposite-sex couples too.

exlybris · Post by **exlybris** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:40 am

no, we are not in "uniÃ£o de facto" in portugal. he came with a working contract, and now he is resident here

exlybris · Post by **exlybris** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:41 am

we are the same gender yes, and it is not legal here-...

meats · Post by **meats** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:43 am

exlybris wrote:we are the same gender yes, and it is not legal here-...

In which case you've got no chance unless he somehow gets a work permit.

exlybris · Post by **exlybris** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:58 am

that is my question... if we go both together to uk, and he gets a job, its easy for him, or he gets automatically a work permiss?

meats · Post by **meats** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:02 am

exlybris wrote:that is my question... if we go both together to uk, and he gets a job, its easy for him, or he gets automatically a work permiss?

He can't work in the UK as has been said on this thread previously. His work permit is for Portugal, that doesn't entitle him to work in the UK. The UK isn't part of Schengen either so he would need a visa just to enter the UK. If they think that he is going to work in the UK, as he clearly intends to, then a visa won't be granted.

djb123 · Post by **djb123** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:37 am

meats wrote:
exlybris wrote:we are the same gender yes, and it is not legal here-...
In which case you've got no chance unless he somehow gets a work permit.

Surely though if the OP was settled in the UK (or at least had a job offer in the UK), he could apply for a visa as a proposed civil partner. Then once they registered their civil partnership in the UK (assuming that is what they wanted to do..) he could extend his visa, and then work?

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