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Ah ok tx maybe it is not as "bad" as I thought?
Somebody I was talking to came in for a job 2 years ago, they said it is OK but not what they expected. They told me they cannot change jobs until they are here for 5 years.
But maybe the problem is then that nobody wants to pay for the sponsorship transfer? I can ask them what is going on.
Either way you are reliant on somebody else doing this for you, rather than finding another job yourself. It sounds a bit unnecessary to me, it is not that you get much dole money (or at all? maybe you get nothing at all w/o IRL) anyway.
JWestland-
Either way you are reliant on somebody else doing this for you, rather than finding another job yourself. It sounds a bit unnecessary to me, it is not that you get much dole money (or at all? maybe you get nothing at all w/o IRL) anyway.
It helps that my role was pretty specialised so not too hard to the get the visa in the first place. For all job changes I was up front about the need to transfer the visa and no one batted an eye. It was only £1500 and I saved them a fortune in recruitment fees by being referred by previous bosses.
One of the conditions of the visa are that you are not entitled to public benefits. You are ineligible for anything apart from the NHS.
Aroogah
When I went through the system, the 5 year work visa was issued to the person, not the company, but with the company instigating the application on behalf of the person. Within my first 5 years here I managed to change jobs twice and each time my employer took on the cost of transferring the sponsorship. (~£1500 at the time). Now the system may have changed in the intervening years, but I don't think it's the indentured servitude model you think it is.