[quote="tikejhya"]Hi, I am in quite unwanted position and need some idea from experienced person in this forum. :idea:
My visa expires on 23rd of august (PSW), My company has applied for Tier2 COS on 11th of June, today its already 21/06 and i am not expecting it to come in by now but i was [b]willing to know how long it takes in general[/b].
And i come to know that even after that cos, we have to apply for personal number or something for me to be able to apply for leave to reamin, please anyone with knowledge about this could enlighten me here.
As my job is here and my wife is in PSW, i am otherwise willing to go back and come again as dependent but again here my wife visa runs out on next year march (8 months time), i am feeling quite rushed and i didnt wanted to make some wrong decision of rushing if i am still in good position to wait and apply for tier2 (by any chance).
I am in quite big dailema [b]should i wait till very end or its impossible for me to be able to apply for tier2 by august 20 atleast?[/b]
Regards,[/quote]
Hi,
I am in same situation with you. I am on PSW which expires on 10th Aug and my company applied for sponsorship licence on 8th of June. We haven't heard anything from them so I called UK Home Office line couple of times and 4 different people told me that they are experiencing high volume of applications also due to Olympics it will take 1-2 months longer than usual which was normally up to 12 weeks. So in this case there should be a miracle that we can get it on time. There is a way but not guaranteed they told me your company e-mail them for an urgent treatment request
sponsorlicensing.support@ukba.gsi.gov.uk by saying that your visa is going to expire soon on X date and they made an application on X date thats why they are requesting an urgent treatment. At least this is what home office told me. Unfortunately my company is not willing to do that because it is such a big company and HR is in the US thats why everything is so slow and they are not really familiar with Visa issues as this will be the first time for them. They think it will look like as if they are pushing Home office . By that you can understand how dumb our HR lady ,s and because of her I wont get it on time. I know people who done it before and they got licence on time. Besides Ive checked this with 3 different lawyers and they all said this is the only way to do it and it cannot look like we are pushing them as this e-mail created for people who are in same situation with us. Perhaps you can mention about urgent treatment to your company and hopefully they will get it on time. Meantime please update us.
Good Luck!