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

[Vish Vishvanath]

Most useful, I shall post this up to the London Subreddit to encourage potential coders.

Cheers

vv

On 22 Sep 2014, at 11:13, Rob Miller <rob at bigfish.co.uk> wrote:

> I forwarded this to my partner, who's an immigration lawyer, and she was (predictably I suppose) less pessimistic than most people here.
> 
> There are seemingly lots of ways to hire people from overseas (from an employer's perspective) or to move here if you're founding a company/opening an overseas branch of an existing company/etc. The requirements (and certainly fees) for a sponsor licence aren't out of reach of even a smaller startup, either.
> 
> Here's a blog post with a few of the options:
> 
> http://www.immigrationbarrister.co.uk/Blog/entrepreneurs/immigration-and-recruitment-for-technology-start-ups.html
> 
> Drop me a line off-list if you want me to put you in touch with her. Her chambers does free no-obligation consultations too.
> 
> (Sorry, I'm seemingly on a one-man PR campaign to improve lawyers' terrible reputations — or maybe it's just Stockholm syndrome!)
> 
> Best,
> Rob
> 
> --
> http://robm.me.uk
> @robmil
> 
> On 20 Sep 2014, at 21:02, Matthew Rudy Jacobs 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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