UK Immigration
UK Immigration Work Permit and Visa Service
There are currently skills shortages in several areas of Engineering and good engineers with appropriate skills and experience are welcome in the UK. This includes CAA Licensed Aircraft Engineers and a variety of UK Work Permit and Visa options are open to you.
Skillclear aims to guide qualified professionals from finding the right job in the UK to clearing work permits for you and your family to come here to live and work.
Several opportunities exist including :
Sponsored Work Permit - Once you have found a UK employer and you wish to move yourself and your family to the UK to take up that employment, we will guide you, your employer and your family through the sponsored work permit process. Ask your new employer to talk to us about this. Please get in touch with us if this is your situation.
SkillClear and it's UK partners are here to help you find the job you need first of all.
Simply register your details
This will allow us to start the process for you as far as finding the right job in the UK.
You will also be able to take advantage of your free access to our partners at the UK's leading focussed engineering job resources including news, views, services and jobs in all engineering sectors.
The Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (UK HSMP Visa)- a points based scheme where you self assess your points score and see if you qualify for an employer free type of work permit. This will allow you to come to the UK to look for work rather than finding work first and then applying for a sponsored permit. You will also be able to work for yourself and for any number of employers. Also see the Working Holidaymaker scheme for those from Commonwealth countries. This again allows you up to 2 years to live, work and play in the UK without the need for an employer to sponsor you.
If you are from one of the EEA Association countries, you may be able to come to the UK to set up in business. You will need a stable and viable Business Plan but not the normal large investment capital that is normally required for business migration. See our EEA area for full details.
Engineering and Integrated Engineering Services are also sectors included in the General Agreement on Trade in Services Agreement [ GATS ]. The GATS agreement is a special concessionary arrangement within the normal Work Permit rules enabling persons, whose employer does not have a commercial presence in the European Union (EU), to work in this country on a service contract awarded to their employer by a British based organisation. The concession is intended to facilitate access to UK service contracts by non-EU based companies or organisations who employ persons having high level professional skills whose entry to this country would otherwise be subject to visa and work permit restrictions.
Please see our full Skills Shortage Page where Engineering occupations figure prominently. This means that a UK Employer will probably find it far easier to employ you that other professions.
