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Lynette

Hi everyone,

I am trying to understand the recruitment process with companies that sponsor the skilled worker visa for overseas applicants. I am planning to come to join my fiance, who is British, in England and get married this summer, following which we hope to settle there. But I want to find a job before I come as it will take a while after we are married to get my immigration status settled and I don't want to be in England and not working. As a commonwealth citizen, I don’t need a visa to come to England, but I don’t have the right to work.

I have seen the list of companies that are licensed UK Sponsors and I have been applying only to companies from that list that advertise vacancies, but during recruitment, they still ask you as one of the first questions on the application form if you have the right to work in the UK and say you have to provide proof at the interview.

With the new points immigration system which came with Brexit, you get points for having a job offer. I just don't know how you get a job offer if during recruitment you are asked on the form, if you have the right to work, then they don't process the application if you say you don't.

What am I missing? Is there anyone who has experience with this from the HR perspective? It is completely baffling to me.

So  basically, am I wasting my time? Is this sponsorship thing for real or is it only in the most exceptional cases that it happens? 

Thank you for any information.

Lyn.

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  • Hi Lynette

    I appreciate that your preference is to get a job and then get married, but you may have to accept that our legal system makes that very difficult. Could you come here, have a small registry office wedding, get your status settled, find a job and then hold a celebration of your wedding?

    I agree with Helen that the UK has become a very unfriendly country and the Home Office is notoriously unhelpful. You say it will take a while to get your immigration status sorted after you are married and are looking to get a job first instead. My experience (which includes working for an employer with a sponsorship licence and being involved in multiple applications for work permits and visas) is that your proposed route will take a lot longer and is not guaranteed to result in you getting the right to work.
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  • Hi Lynette

    I appreciate that your preference is to get a job and then get married, but you may have to accept that our legal system makes that very difficult. Could you come here, have a small registry office wedding, get your status settled, find a job and then hold a celebration of your wedding?

    I agree with Helen that the UK has become a very unfriendly country and the Home Office is notoriously unhelpful. You say it will take a while to get your immigration status sorted after you are married and are looking to get a job first instead. My experience (which includes working for an employer with a sponsorship licence and being involved in multiple applications for work permits and visas) is that your proposed route will take a lot longer and is not guaranteed to result in you getting the right to work.
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  • in reply to Elizabeth Divver
    Thanks Elizabeth. Our wedding was scheduled, booked, invitations went out etc. for August 2020, in my country. Then we would have applied for the appropriate visa and when it was in order, then I would have come to England. But Covid-19 struck, my country's borders closed and it has remained closed since and of course we know the story with the range of restrictions, quarantine etc that has made international travel an expensive nightmare in many instances. So we intend to get married as soon as the restrictions in both my country and England allow us to get into the same place to do so - hopefully this summer. As it is now, the large celebration we had planned already has to be shelved until some time in the future. I appreciate you sharing your firsthand experience with this. We may really have to just modify our original plan so that I come, we get married in England and then I find a job. Thanks again.