HOME OFFICE problems or...

[szebah]

Here's how it goes.

Me and a friend want to immigrate to London as soon as possible. My buddy is a friend of a respectable family in LONDON (the wife is a priest there) that told him not to worry as she will take care of everything. We told ourselves that is OK and we started waiting.

Two weeks later she calls my friend and tells him that there is no problem as she found us jobs (my friend is a professional physiotherapist with good results in Romania and UK and I work in IT domain for now) and there is no problem aswell regarding a place to stay there.

The only problem would be (as she said) that the HOME OFFICE no longer provides WORK PERMITS (yes we are from Romania) and that she is looking for a legal way for us to work. We want to go there and work legally as we don’t want any problems with law.

As I read here and on the other forums many people obtained their WORK PERMIT pretty easy. Does the fact that we come from Romania remains a problem or is this family to polite to refuze helping my friend and me?

Any solutions to this problem are highly appreciated. Please excuse my english and let me know if you don’t understand what I wrote above.

Thank you in advance.

[labush]

Hey man I`m an engineer from Romania too. My company applied in 10 August for work permit. They have no answer yet. I think because I`m romanian too.

[szebah]

Probably the fact that we are romanian's is associated with gipsy's (a kind of a facial discrimination) and this might be the HOME OFFICE way to tell us that we don't fit the bill there. Who knows.

Any more opinions?

[thirdwave]

You might want to consider HSMP, if you qualify for it

[bibbay]

Probably the fact that we are romanian's is associated with gipsy's (a kind of a facial discrimination) and this might be the HOME OFFICE way to tell us that we don't fit the bill there. Who knows.

Any more opinions?

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[philgeorge999]

The requirement is that Romanian (and Bulgarian) citizens apply for a work permit or HSMP visa before they are able to work in the UK. If you qualify for one, based on your skills, qualifications and experience, AND GIVEN THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE VISA then they will grant it. Otherwise they will not. The UK immigration authorities are generally fair and they follow the rules set down by Parliament. They are not institutionally dearly beloved.

Probably the fact that we are romanian's is associated with gipsy's (a kind of a facial discrimination) and this might be the HOME OFFICE way to tell us that we don't fit the bill there. Who knows.

Any more opinions?

[kayac00]

My husband is romanian and working in IT in Northern Ireland part of UK for 4 years now he has had no discrimination because he is romanian.

The work permit is only available if no person can be found inside the whole of EU for the position or if you have a tier one skill that is in demand in the UK.

Hope you get some good news soon

Kay

[labush]

Kayac 00 , Romania and Bulgaria are in the EU but their citizens are not allowed to work in UK. This is first discrimination .....

[kayac00]

Labush yes I know that Romania and Bulgaria are in the EU now from Jan 07 I just signed a petition saying that you as romanians and bulgarians should have the same treatment as everyone else in the EU right to work

[James.Dunlop]

Dear All

At workpermit.com we have helped many Romanian and Bulgarian nationals establish themselves in the UK. Rather than work permit or HSMP routes, you should consider setting yourselves up as freelance suppliers of services. We can then take the ECAA route.

Plese feel free to mail me on james.dunlop@workpermit.com for further details

All the best


James