<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I just got back from Berlin, we had an Indian Product Manager join us from San Fran. I was involved in the hiring process but it didn't seem any quicker there. It was a quite a few weeks before he could work for us.<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 21 Sep 2014, at 08:53, Siddharth Sharma <<a href="mailto:svs@svs.io">svs@svs.io</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>I haven't tried this myself nor do I know anyone who has, so caveats apply.</div><div><br></div><div>cheers</div><div>Siddhrth</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Vish Vishvanath <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vish.vishvanath@gmail.com" target="_blank">vish.vishvanath@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><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><div><div class="h5"><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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