[Mat]

If you can take a few months off from your job in HK (no pay leave for example) and check out London for a few weeks/months. If you land a good job there, then you inform your company in HK and quit. If you don't then you just come back after a couple of weeks/months in HK. at least you would have tried.
You are 27, apparently not married or anything like that..what do you have to loose???

(Perso I'd rather live here than in London..but taste..)

[PDLM]

ayukobaby,

What makes you say that you cannot work for more than 3 months in one job? The UKVisas site here: http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk/servlet/Fr...18721068240#Q4 says that you can work for up to 12 months in a two year period. I don't see anything about the 3 month restriction.

[hullexile]

Why is it that people go on about how many immigrants there are flooding into Uk (I am from there) but it seems really difficult to get a visa if you are non-european and I would guess a few other favoured countries? Tried to get my girlfriend (filipina) there for a week last year and gave up. I know of a vice president of a Chinese University who was refused permission to visit, and a Chinese family who are millionnaires and own their own manufacturing company who were also refused. I work for a UK university and we are always having problems with students being refused visas.

[PDLM]

I didn't have a great deal of difficulty getting a visa for my Filipina g/f to visit the UK last year... I did go with her personally to the consulate, gave them a detailed itinerary, proof of income and all the other stuff they asked for though (and had a follow-up phone call with the case officer the next day).

UK Immigration is very much at the discretion of the case officer though... You have to be careful not to write or say anything that they feel is at all suspicious or which is an embellishment of the truth otherwise they very rapidly seem to start viewing the application negatively.

Having said that, I was asked to support an application for a mainland Chinese (who had been my PA at my office in Shanghai) to study in Newcastle a couple of years ago, and that was a whole different kettle of fish... In desperation after being bounced about 3 times despite having been accepted by the University, she found a man who claimed that for a few thousand RMB he could get her application approved. She paid, and he did. Which I found rather distressing in its implication that the British Consulate in Shanghai has people who can be bought...

[hullexile]

The Shanghai thing is depressing, thought the British Consulate would be safer.

Apart from the fact that they would not give us an interview for nearly a month despite what the website says they also wanted her bank statements, how many filipinas have bank accounts? I guess I was just unlucky. It does seem to be random at times. One policy the students have told me about is major problems for single girls under 26. Of course they are all after us wonderful British men, not a degree.

[PDLM]

Originally Posted by hullexile

Apart from the fact that they would not give us an interview for nearly a month despite what the website says they also wanted her bank statements, how many filipinas have bank accounts?{...}One policy the students have told me about is major problems for single girls under 26.

My g/f is single and (just) under 26, but I guess the difference in my case was that I could show airline reservations for us both to travel there and back together, we were planning to stay some of the time at my mother's address and so on... She does have a bank a/c, but it doesn't prove much since she is a student... As I recall the Consulate met its promised times exactly - application in early one day, visa approved by the end of the next day (or possibly the one after that). There wasn't an interview as such - we had all the necessary paperwork with us when we submitted the application.

[hullexile]

Hope we haven't got the same gf

[chilli]

Originally Posted by ayukobaby

thx for the advice. i wanted to move there next year so bad but now im starting to get worried... im really afraid that i cant get a part time job there coz i can only stay in the same job for 3 months under this working holiday scheme. so if u have any connection, i would really appreciate. it affects pretty much whether im going or not.

ayu, just go and worry later...if you cant seem to find decent jobs or dont like it there for another reason you can always come back....if you don't go you might regret it in the future...

[HK_Newbie100]

PDLM is right. From the link he gives, it says that you can work for up to 12 months under the scheme. Not knowing about the scheme, I was sceptical at first of whether there’d be many opportunities for you, but if the scheme allows you to work legally for 12 months, I’m sure by making relevant enquiries, you’ll be able to find something.

Try some of these links to do with Chinese community in UK:

http://www.chinatownthemagazine.com/
http://www.dimsum.co.uk/index.php
http://lkcn.net/
http://www.linkchinese.net/
http://sacu.org/links.html

…to name just a few. Google something like ‘Chinese Community in UK’ or something like that for more. There are some discussion forums with contributions from UK born Chinese and also HK Chinese telling about their experiences in UK. I think they can advise you better and more directly and relevantly. UK born Chinese are generally far more Western than they are Chinese, so hanging out with them, you get the best of both worlds, and get around the problem you mentioned about not wanting to hang around HK Chinese.

[ayukobaby]

I remember i read it somewhere but now i cant find the restriction. So can i work for full time for 12 months or just part time?? and do u know where i can find jobs that i might have a higher chance?

Originally Posted by PDLM

ayukobaby,

What makes you say that you cannot work for more than 3 months in one job? The UKVisas site here: http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk/servlet/Fr...18721068240#Q4 says that you can work for up to 12 months in a two year period. I don't see anything about the 3 month restriction.