Working in UK as an Indian citizen
i am currently on OPT wanting to move to UK for work and experience. is it doable to get work permit? how easy is it to eventually get PR there so you dont have a noose constantly around your neck? If it helps, i have masters education from top 5 CS American institute
The day India has good work life balance, the day the corrupt stop scamming from tax payers money (btw only 2 precent of India pay tax), the day I don't have to spend 4 hrs to commute to and from work that's the day Indians will stay back or go back to India. Now these are not demands that only a 1st world country can give. These are some easy steps that the country can take. I have the opportunity to get an American citizen ship. But I have not and will never abandon my Indian citizenship. So before everyone gets too patriotic please ask yourself this one question. WHY ARE INDIANS LEAVING INDIA? I mean we have the best education, the best doctors , in my opinion the best affordable health care. So why are Indians leaving India and is there anything the government and the country can do to keep talent and people.
We leave for higher education. Government needs to create good grad research programs and much more uni infra. Once we have high skilled talent coming from these pipelines, an industry ecosystem will emerge with many more high paying opportunities. We need to end brain drain
Leave for higher education is BS. Everyone who comes to the US for education comes with the plan of eventually getting a job here. You offer someone a US college degree and a job after that or that job directly without the US college degree where the company would sponsor H1, there is no lunatic who would take the former unless s/he intend to phd.
Ffs can someone answer the question and stop talking about shit meant for some other thread
It’s 5 years to a PR and 6 years to citizenship .The difficult part is entry -intra company transfer is your best bet.Once you have your first job there your set-the immigration rules are pretty clear
Thanks man. 6 additional years to citizenship or 1 year after pr ?
Get hired in FAANG, then ask them to move you to the UK. Directly going to UK is gonna be almost impossible. Regarding UK PR, idk
You can go for a tier 1 visa if you’re an ‘exceptional talent’ - hard to get but possible if you’re an industry leader. Unless you have an ancestry / dependant visa then tier 2 general for 5 years until ILR is the only way to go, which more or less means tied to company and pretty risky to try to switch companies. A lot of people in relationships get a tier 2 general and then get their partner in on tier 2 dependent, then get their partner to get a tier 2 general so they can switch to tier 2 dependent and job hop, then rinse and repeat.
Move from sunny US to gray cloudy UK with crazy expensive housing ? What is the point ?
Seattle is gray cloudy. How crazy expensive is UK? How is TC there? I like Canada. Lower TC, Higher taxes but free healthcare. Unfortunately not as much industry ecosystem as US/UK
If you are OK with Seattle, probably London will be OK too. However if you don’t like it you have plenty of choices in the US as Silicon Valley, Austin, or Florida, which you don’t have in UK. You should visit UK first and see the neighborhoods you could live in.
Tier-2 general is your best bet. Like US, you will need to find a sponsor company to get Tier-2 CoS. Usually Tier-2 is granted for 3 or 5 years. You can be on Tier-2 general for max 6 years. After spending 5 years on Tier-2 general, you become eligible for UK PR which is called ILR here. After spending 1 year on ILR status, you become eligible for British citizenship & passport. Tier-2 general is tied to sponsorer company. To change before ILR, your new employer must agree to sponsor new CoS. After ILR, you are free to work anywhere or start your own business. Tier-2 has a variant called ICT. Its intra company transfer. You can come to UK on this for max 5 years & need to go out of UK for 1 year to come back on same visa. There is no route to ILR on this one. There is Tier-1 visa too. But that needs exceptional talents. Search for it on Internet.
Why not serve India ? Why so selfish
Indian TC can't pay my student debt or uplift my family
Wait, wasn’t your visa non immigrant ? I am neither lawyer nor gone through visa applications, but the little I know tells that you vouched that you will return to India and your sole purpose to come to US is education. Didn’t you do math to account how many years would you need to work in India to pay back your loans ?