<p dir="ltr">Hi</p>
<p dir="ltr">For the sake of completeness: my previous company did sponsor a visa so we could bring someone that we wanted to the UK. We used a 3rd party company to do all the legal process which did cost a few thousand (about 3k IIRC). This made life a lot easier. </p>
<p dir="ltr">But the other thing to note is that as startup you are now in the sights of the UKBA and so have to now implement the kinds of hr policies that you would associate with larger companies (e.g. keeping track of everyone's passport details so you can prove that they are allowed to work in the UK). Not an insurmountable job but it's just one more of those compliance activities that startups tend to not be so good at :)</p>
<p dir="ltr">Do drop me a mail off list of you want to talk to the visa company that we used and i'll put you in touch.</p>
<p dir="ltr">A<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 21 Sep 2014 08:38, "Vish Vishvanath" <<a href="mailto:vish.vishvanath@gmail.com">vish.vishvanath@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This question regularly pops up in the Reddit London sub, so I encourage people to search there. But the answer is always the same. <div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div><br></div><div>Vish<br><br><div><div>Sent using <a href="https://cloudmagic.com/k/d/mailapp?ct=pi&cv=5.2.8&pv=7.1.2" target="_blank">CloudMagic</a></div></div><br><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 9:02 pm, Matthew Rudy Jacobs <<a href="mailto:matthewrudyjacobs@gmail.com" target="_blank">matthewrudyjacobs@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <div style="overflow:visible"><blockquote style="color:#303b40"><div dir="ltr">On 21 September 2014 03:39, Eric Theise <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erictheise@gmail.com" target="_blank">erictheise@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">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?<br><br>Thanks, Eric<br><div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I looked into this before for a Hong Kong friend who we were trying to get a visa for.</div><div><br></div><div>Although on paper it seems fairly straightforward<br></div><div><br></div><div>1. get a sponsorship permit for your company</div><div>2. put out a special advert for 28 days</div><div>3. resolve that local talent can't satisfy your requirements</div><div>4. take the foreign recruit of your choice (assuming they tick enough boxes)</div><div><br></div><div>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"</div><div><br></div><div>So we didn't pursue it.</div><div><br></div><div>If anyone has had a more positive experience, I'd love to hear that.</div></div>
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