[LRUG] Software engineer in SF looking for work in London

[Siddharth Sharma]

Apparently countries that have signed up for the European Blue Card scheme
have much less stringent requirements. This makes Berlin a more viable
choice than London as Germany is, by all accounts, quite enthusiastic about
the scheme.

I haven't tried this myself nor do I know anyone who has, so caveats apply.

cheers
Siddhrth

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Vish Vishvanath <vish.vishvanath at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This question regularly pops up in the Reddit London sub, so I encourage
> people to search there. But the answer is always the same.
>
> Unless you have ancestry from the EU, or come from a country with a
> working visa scheme, the company that sponsors you will have to show that
> only you can perform the role they need. It's very very tricky, and
> companies generally don't bother.
>
> Best
>
> Vish
>
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> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 9:02 pm, Matthew Rudy Jacobs <
> matthewrudyjacobs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 21 September 2014 03:39, Eric Theise <erictheise at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Would anyone care to comment, either as a Londoner taking on foreign
>> engineers or as an expat that's been able to make such a situation work?
>>
>> Thanks, Eric
>>
>
> I looked into this before for a Hong Kong friend who we were trying to get
> a visa for.
>
> Although on paper it seems fairly straightforward
>
> 1. get a sponsorship permit for your company
> 2. put out a special advert for 28 days
> 3. resolve that local talent can't satisfy your requirements
> 4. take the foreign recruit of your choice (assuming they tick enough
> boxes)
>
> The advice I got from startups who've tried it was "actually, it takes a
> lot of time, and a lot of money for immigration lawyers, and it still may
> not work"
>
> So we didn't pursue it.
>
> If anyone has had a more positive experience, I'd love to hear that.
>
>
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