Worldwide Immigration

Recruitment Agencies

As recruitment agent, you probably want to leave work permit issues to the candidates wherever possible. Unfortunately, this is not normally possible unless the candidates have very close family ties to their destination country.

The sad fact is that most countries require work permits / visas to be applied for by the potential employer and not the individual. Even in countries such as Australia, Canada, and New Zealand that allow independent points based immigration, employer sponsorship is the usual route as this is far quicker (independent immigration applications typically take 6 – 18 months to process!)

The UK, and most EU countries do not allow agents to sponsor work permits – they require sponsorship by either the end user, or by a consulting company providing warranted project-based deliverables (i.e. not just a ‘contract body shop’).

If your end user does not want to sponsor, and is prepared to re-jig the work to be suitably project based (this is becoming increasingly possible in the UK as IR35 forces people towards project-based contracts). If you do not, please contact us to discuss your situation. We may well be able to help you as we have arranged a third party consulting company that is usually able to warehouse such projects. The contracts can be drafted so as to include you and so that payments continue to flow through you.

If you require more information or if you have any queries or suggestion please write to us at info@WorldwideImmigration.com