Hi, Apologies for this long post but I ‘m in very tricky situation as the opportunity I’ve received is dream coming true. I’ll highly appreciate any help in this regard. I did come to UK on other visas prior to below ones, however below two are latest visas those I believe are relevant:
Oct/2011 to Oct-2012 - Tier-2 ICT Short Term Migrant (Expired)
Nov-2012 to Dec-2015 - Tier-2 ICT Long Term Migrant (Current visa)
With total of 14 years of IT experience, I’m permanent employee of an Indian reputed company (since last 7+ years) and as projects manager, I have been working for my company’s client which is a giant company here in the UK via ICT visa. Current onsite assignment has visibility of 4-5 months only.
Now this giant company’s customer (NHS) have invited me to work with them looking at my profile and work. They are very keen and are ready to sponsor visa (I believe Tier-2 is the only option) to get me on board asap.
When I checked below link, particularly section named “Can you switch into Tier 2 (General)?”
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/visas ... igibility/
It clearly indicates that with my current valid ICT LT visa granted in Nov 2012, I can’t apply from within UK and I must go to India and apply from there. Big task!
Question1: With existing valid ICT LT visa, I can surely fly to India to complete above task, BUT once my Tier-2 General visa gets stamped, what happens to my ICT LT visa? And what do I do with my current onsite assignment.
Intention of this exercise: I want to play this very safe. Assuming NHS gives me all supporting docs for applying visa from India, I see two options:
1) Do not resign my current job immediately, stay with current company, take 2-3 weeks leave to go to India, apply for Tier-2 General, get it processed and come back to UK (Not sure on which visa) and then resign, and then join NHS.
a. This way if my T2G doesn’t get stamped I will still have ICT-LT visa with which I can continue my onsite assignment.
2) Resign my current job with my Indian parent company, (obviously lose onsite assignment), serve notice period, go back to India and apply from there. [I’m sure anyone can guess what happens if anything goes wrong].
3) Lose the NHS opportunity, wait for my company to send me back to India in next 6 months of so, check with NHS for any opportunity and then make a fresh T2G application which will not require me to mandatorily resign current job.
Whats your views on this please. I’ll be more than happy if anyone can help me over email as well.
Many thanks in advance.
