- To your knowledge, have the organisations you have engaged with recruited any of the following workers in the past 5 years: (Please select all that apply)
UK and/or Irish workers
Workers from EEA countries outside of the UK and/or Ireland
Workers from non-EEA countries
Don’t know
- In the next 12 months are they likely to recruit: (Please select all that apply)
UK and/or Irish workers
Workers from EEA countries outside of the UK and/or Ireland
Workers from non-EEA countries
Don’t know
Experience of Tier 2 (General) visa
Following on from the previous question, were these non-EEA workers recruited under the Tier 2 (General) visa system?
Yes some
Yes all
No
Don’t know
- Are the salaries required by tier 2 immigration rules generally:
Higher than what they normally pay
About the same
Lower than they what would normally pay
Don’t know
- Have you had any issues with Tier 2 visa salary requirements? If so what where they? (In 200 words)
Keeping up to date with administrative changes.
- Have any of the Tier 2 (General) visa employees employed by your members (or organisations you represent) applied or tried to apply for settlement?
Yes
No
Question 19 and 20 are only applicable if you have answered ‘yes’ in question 18, others should complete question 21 onwards.Migrants on Tier 2 (General) visas are eligible to apply for settlement (indefinite leave to remain) after 5 years in the UK. Those migrants coming to the UK on or after the 6th April 2011 have also had to meet a minimum salary threshold, currently £35,800, in order to be successful in their application for settlement. There is an exemption to this salary threshold for migrants employed in shortage occupations.