UKBA introduce new fee for technical changes on work permit employment notifications
On Monday 29 June a fee of £20 will be introduced for the acceptance of technical change of employment notifications for work permit holders.
The change was announced in the changes to the Immigration and Nationality (cost recovery fees) Regulations 2009, on 10 March 2009 and is to help the UK Border Agency (UKBA) recover its costs.
Employers informing the UKBA of any change to the personal details of their employee must now complete a notification of technical change of employment form, available on their website.
For more significant changes, such as changes to the job, location or terms and conditions employers will need to make a new application under Tier 2 of the points-based system.
Employers must have a licence to ’sponsor’ non EU/EEA skilled workers, temporary workers under the new system, part of the biggest shake up in immigration for 50 years. This does not apply to employing overseas students who have their own permission to work under their student visa.
Employers can register on line as sponsors by going to the ‘Sponsoring workers under the points-based system‘ section of the UK Border Agency website. The process can take several months so plan ahead if you have Work Permits expiring which need renewing.
See also:
Tier 2 Certificate of Sponsorship from an employer does not guarantee you a working visa
If you need any immigration advice or help with Studying in the UK, Settlement, Citizenship, Sponsorship, extending Work Permits, Visa or an appeal against a refusal please email:
info@immigrationmatters.co.uk or visit www.immigrationmatters.co.uk
Reader Comments
THE FEES ARE BECOMING MORE AND MORE HIGH.
they got more money for the foreigner and student visa they pay very expensive but they pay their salary to low
why is the visa processing taking so much time?
based on our previous student/tier4 visa application denial, as soon as our application arrived in the UK embassy in Taguig, Phils.,it was right away processed, the decision was made the following day, but it took them over 2 weeks to mail back the docs to VFS.
we are so frustrated because there is so much time wasted waiting. we have to move on if we get denied, like apply for Cananda, but all our original docs is with the embassy.
if there is so much work load at the embassy, then they should advise VFS to temporarily not accept application so that those which needs processing can be attended to, thus reducing back log, thus satisfying the applicants.
kindly help us on this.