<div dir="ltr">Hi Seung-Hyo, everyone,<div><br></div><div>If a UK company (startup or otherwise) wishes to hire a software engineer from anywhere in the world under a Tier 2 (General) Visa, they definitely can.</div><div><br></div><div>It's a process. As the hiring company, you pay a good immigration lawyer fees of £1,000-£4,000 (depending on complexity), do what they say, pay £1,000 in visa fees/other disbursements. Allow 10-14 weeks from start to finish. Be sensible and your new hire can contract remotely from his/her home country in the meantime.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I've secured 6 or 7 Tier 2 visas in this way since 2007, and the money/timescales aren't daunting if the result is you get to hire a great colleague onto your team.</div><div><br></div><div>Seung-Hyo -- as for looking for a job at a startup -- inevitably, I recommend timing a trip to London with the next Silicon Milkroundabout (15th/16th November). Drop me an email off-thread if you have any questions.</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck!</div><div><br></div><div>Pete</div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:11pt">Pete Smith</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:11pt">CEO & Co-founder, </span><a href="http://siliconmilkroundabout.com" style="font-size:11pt">siliconmilkroundabout.com</a><br></p></div></div>
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