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hayesconcept:
No, You need to update your visa

Hm? This is not correct o.

Once you have been cleared off study by your university you are free to work full time.

Your student visa will fulfill the right to work requirements up till its expiry date, by which time you should have switched to another visa that will allow you continue in the role.

Tenibegilojuo:
Hello guys, please I urgently need your advice on this:

I am a cybersecurity specialist, currently working in a cybersecurity company here in the uk for about 8 months now. I just landed an offer with an NHS trust for a cybersecurity role band 7. I was surprised not to see anything regarding sponsorship on my offer letter. I tried reaching out to the HR guy in charge of my recruitment to seek confirmation regarding the sponsorship but he won’t respond to my emails. However, I sought a few guys’ opinions and I was told NHS always gives sponsorship for tech roles and that it’s almost cast in stone.

My current employer is actually willing to sponsor me towards my visa expiry which is in 6 months, but it’s just that I prefer the NHS role as it’s more senior and strategic.

I need to tender my resignation in 24 hrs to fulfill my 1 month notice period. I don’t know if I should maintain the assumption that the NHS trust will sponsor me or I should just stay put where I am sure of CoS.

Whatever you do, do not resign until you receive confirmation that they will sponsor you.

When you say you need to tender your resignation in 24 hours to fulfill your notice period, why is that? Employment notice periods aren’t usually tied to calendar months so you can give your notice on the 5th, 10th or any date and it’ll terminate one month after. Doesn’t (usually) need to be on the first or last day of the month.

Since it’s NHS, they’ll ask you to agree a start date with the hiring manager and they’ll send you their contact information so you need to reach out to that person directly. The HR person won’t know if they will sponsor the role because it’s not a HR decision but that of the hiring service whose budget the sponsorship fees will come out from.

So in short, contact the hiring manager for confirmation.

Please DO NOT resign without confirmation.

Goke7:
How many companies outside the healthcare sector are sponsoring skilled workers?

Some of us are not realistic enough, from the current stats it clearly shows not many companies outside the healthcare sector sponsor skilled workers and that’s the only major pathway in this country. And from my current observation the number of companies outside the health sector that are sponsoring keeps reducing. Let’s not give people false hopes by urging them to continue to hope on what is never available. My advise simple to anyone not interested in care is to start to explore other countries and don’t get caught in the cross fire of uk immigration which is the perspective Justwise is coming from but many here are clearly misunderstanding him. I should keep applying when my visa is expiring soon and I have a family? Common

This has nothing to with the foundation of POF, it has more to do with the opportunities available and not everyone I repeat not everyone will have the privilege of working in the nhs which does not even sponsor for many roles. It’s what it is.

Man, many many companies offer sponsorship.

Difference is most don’t offer it to entry-level hires.

That is the entire reason for PSW, to relieve graduates of the need for sponsorship and allow them to prove themselves to the point that companies will sponsor them.

There is a clear, logical progression to the thing but many people don’t want to follow it for various reasons and that’s how they end up where they end up, and then people like you start blaming the government for everything.

Your advise to anyone not interested in care work is to go to another country? Lmao. I can see that you’re fully set on this so all the best to you and all the others who join you in believing care is the only work available to immigrants in this country.

justwise:
Yes after 5, 10 yrs people change job if they want.

After about 6 years of full time care, he will port to a new career in cyber? 😹😹
As what? Assuming he’s around 30, at close to 40 he’ll start looking for entry-level cyber analyst Abi? In 2029 when the cyber landscape will be completely different and he’ll probably be weighed down with a lot more familial responsibilities?

You people so love to titillate yourselves with these fantasies sha.

The fact of the matter is that if people actually came to the country with their fees and POF sorted as they declared, they would comfortably be able to get PSW and then use that time to get jobs without bothering about sponsorship in the first instance, and then get a sponsorship role of the back of that experience before the PSW expires. That’s because there are a ton of professional jobs vacant but sponsorship is the issue, which many employers are reluctant about whether rightly or wrongly.

Many of my friends have even been sponsored by the same place where they work after just a few months of working on PSW because the organisation now has the confidence to do so, and many others simply go to other organizations that sponsor after a year or so.

In 90% of cases where people default to care it’s because the foundation of their immigration was faulty (fraudulent?) ab initio, thereby robbing them of the flexibility to take advantage of the very clear paths to career progression, and then they get stuck doing things they hate for the rest of their lives.

But no, keep blaming the government and tories and companies and everybody but those who chose to cut corners and are bearing the consequences.

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Edit: for the avoidance of doubt I have nothing against care work. I just believe it should be done as a way to pad your finances while studying so you have a reserve for PSW and while searching for a job afterwards, or if you are a professional health care worker or have a passion for it.

To pay 15k to do cybersecurity or some other hotcake masters (especially STEM!) and then discard that to go and do care full time for 5 years though? Haba mana.

Let’s break out of this default-to-care mould biko, while other immigrant communities are aspiring higher and building careers and businesses.

ehizario2012:
Thank for your detailed response. Key takeaway is that the 40% would apply on the second job only, not on both jobs.

I think you're misinterpreting what the person you quoted said.

The tax bands apply to ALL income COMBINED. Doesn't matter if it's one or two or ten jobs.

If you're under-taxed in either of the jobs, you'll get a notice from HMRC demanding the rest later.

HenryG:
Hello everyone,
Please I need your help. I am bit shaking right now. I am a student in the UK. I was contacted over the weekend for data optimising job for App review for play stores and Apple stores through an agency. There is a form of payment that comes through the website we should for the optimization (Which is just a click and submit review for Apps). The money from the website can be sent to a Crypto wallet (OKX). I had to buy buy USDT 2 times yesterday and today for the work which is less than £70 spent. The purchase was through P2P by paying directly into the seller bank account and then the seller releasing Crypto(USDT) to me in my OKX account. It all went successfully though.
But later, I started checking if I am eligible to engage into Crypto as an International student in the UK. I have not sold any Crypto than to buy 2 times(over the weekend. Please I do hope I am not in a mess already as an international student.
Your response will be appreciated.
Thanks

You’re not in any risk for trading crypto.

This job does seem a bit sketchy though so you should be wary of being scammed.

heroshark:
You are turning this into a personal attack, which is very bad.
I came into the UK last year, so I am even part of the new cohort and wave of immigrant that I'm referring to. I am not even successful yet talk more of not wanting others to succeed.

Ignore the fellow. He hasn’t said anything of substance. Only the jesting and personal attacks.

It’s typical of people who know someone is saying the truth and have no points to counter but are determined to discredit what is being said anyway.

Many people love self-deceit a lot, and this person is clearly one of them.

iyatrustee:
To work with visa or claim asylum? Hopefully not the latter if not ehn!

I suspect it’s just plain illegal migration. Going to live there without papers.

Poanan:
Hmm, the truth there is bias when it comes to recruitment. He was probably employed because because of the name of that firm and not because of anything. If u decide to put HCAor support worker in your cv, how does that correlate to the work in a bank? What people do is use Nigerian reference like that and still use it to cover employment gap. My classmate she uses her Nigerian firm till date and that is because she still works there but remotely. Using HCA may still be viewed as a gap as it is not in your field for some people. You can list it when doing documentation with the firm cos places like civil service will draw data from hmrc and you have to reveal everything. When putting reference state what you worked there as cos they will ask in which capacity and If it is a bootcamp state it there it is still up experience.my opinion though. Na God de help. Try civil service but even the civil service in recent times, there interview is somehow. They do blind recruitment but during interview they ask you if you are currently working for the civil service? To me that question alone can dictate the score you come out it.

Blind recruitment does not extend to your work history.

If they don't assess where you have worked and what kind of transferable skills and experience you have how will they select the best candidates? NHS prefers people with NHS experience, same with civil service and same with any private sector employer preferring people with direct experience in the industry.

That said, you can approach this proactively. In the interview for my current role, they didn't ask me but I knew that was a consideration so when it was time for my questions I asked the ones I had and then said I had an additional point to make which was that I knew that they would prefer someone with direct experience in the organisation and although I don't have that, I have A, B, C direct transferable skills because of my experience doing X, Y, Z.

These things would usually come up in the interview but it also helps to make it explicit. It also shows a high degree of self-awareness and understanding of the organisation's needs.

Zahra29:
They definitely will not scrap PSW in the immediate to short term - that is off the table.

They are looking at other measures instead and as part of this they will raise the salary threshold eligibility for a skilled visa - though not as high as £45k (likely around £33 - £35k) but in any case they will exempt health and social care workers from this salary requirement.

Fully agree. It’s highly unlikely they’ll scrap PSW visa and even if they add restrictions it likely won’t apply to people already on the visa anyway.

Also agree re SW salary. The 45k Suella is pushing is just political red meat for the ‘base’. The more popular line is for it to be brought in line with the average salary in the country which is around 33 as you’ve said. That one is likely to happen.

UniqueDext:
Bro am not sure you understand.
Even yesterday i told her to come and fix my door and give me the house keys that I will pay her once did is done.
And this woman in front of me told me that am stupid and who do I think I am to tell her that..

The police just don't want to get involved but they are asking me to find a way to involve them if she break any criminal laws then that's where they can start to build up a case against her.

Tell them you feel afraid for your life due to her threats.

justwise:
I don't think this guy is mentally ok, I read the whole article to see if there is anywhere they mentioned about examining him mentally, if he was white they would have do that before proceeding with the court case.

What law is it that says that whites must be examined mentally before being charged, but not Africans, as you've implied?

bigtt76:
Exactly. Most times in addition to requesting references, your employer or you may be asked for your past payslip. They also go as far as checking up the employer to see if they exist.

Your past employer cannot provide your payslip to a new employer.

You also have no legal obligation to provide it.

You can give them a P60 but that's up to you.

ehizario2012:
It's the same o, nawa 4 women. They are just a necessary evil, nothing more. I have 2 daughters too sha.

If she don meet baba olowo, make the man pay her £14,500 fees and arrange CoS for the dependant guy na, make everybody rest!

So your daughters and mother are ‘necessary evils’ and nothing more, too?

lavida001:
Uk wants to starts taxing Inheritance

Has always been in place in UK and many (most?) other countries as well.

Guessing you don't know that in Nigeria there's an estate duty that's paid on the grant of probate after a person dies? About 10%.

giselle237:
So what money are they layin claim to if no deposit

They can sue for damages.

Even if he had a deposit, if the cost of the repairs exceed his deposit they can sue for the difference.

You can’t just rent someone’s house and damage things and then go on your merry way because the rental is over.

Lexusgs430:
It matters alot (infact, it's the spine of this matter).......

Without a legal contract, you cannot be deemed a tenant......

LL could claim she simply housed an unruly family member......

Without a contract, if the LL is wise..... She would get away with murder.......

Completely and utterly false.

They have an agreement, written or otherwise, and the fellow is a tenant whether or not they had a written contract.

It's the landlady who has the most top loose anyway when it comes out that she didn't do the necessary legal checks, documentation and safekeeping of the deposit (and likely also the tax filings required).

The person should get in touch with Shelter.