Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I read the rules at ukba website and found the following text at the link below.
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/emplo ... arkettest/
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>If you want to sponsor a migrant to do a job that you have advertised under the resident labour market test, you must assign the certificate of >sponsorship no more than six months after you first advertised the job....
>The only exceptions to this six-month rule are:
>a) where a migrant has been recruited via a milkround, in which case you can assign a certificate of sponsorship up to 48 months after the milkround took >place; and
>b) where a migrant is employed as a research fellow at a higher education institution, in which case you can assign the certificate of sponsorship up to >12 months after the recruitment process started. We will exceptionally allow a certificate of sponsorship to have been assigned outside this 12-month >limit, but only if you assigned it on or before 31 December 2009.
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My job was advertised in Sept 2009 and so my six months has already passed. My only hope is exception to six month rule as otherwise the employer ( higher education institution) has to do labour test again and that would mean another round of interviews.
My question are.
1. Has some one got or knows someone who got similar experience of long delay between interview and joining date?
2. The exception rule mentions "exceptions to this six-month rule where a migrant is employed as a research fellow". Does that mean the title of job should be "research fellow" or it means the job role should include research. My offered job role is of lecturer and the duties include teaching and research. Will my job fall under the six month exception rule?
3. I am bit reluctant to ask the employer these questions because they may feel that all this is too complicated and take back the offer. But if I were to ask them then is there something that they can do apart from advertising the job again and conducting another round of interviews? I mean can they do something to get the six month excetption?
Thanks again.