Permanent job offer while on a IEC visa

[blue and black]

Hello, hopefully someone with a bit of insight could help me out! I'm currently on a IEC visa working a fixed term contract for a small insurance loss adjusting and claims management firm, who have offered me a 18 month contract which is likely to tern into a permanent position after that.

Doing a little research, I see that the company will need a Labour market agreement to formally offer me this role. The issue is, having a look at last years LMA's that were approved (these stats are available on the CIC website) are almost all in farming and rural, industrial or catering/hospitality sectors.

So, my question is, does anyone have any feed back on the likelihood of getting a LMA approval for my kind of claims adjusting work? basically I want to have some idea if it would just be a bit of a waste of time!

Thanks in advance!

 

[zardoz]

The LMO is up to the employer to source, not you. So, it rather depends on whether THEY think it's a waste of their time (and money).

Either way, you should be aware that if you haven't received a "closed work permit" by the time your IEC expires, you cannot continue working as "implied status" is not available for IEC work permit holders. (just a heads up to save you pain in the future).

 

[blue and black]

Thanks for that zardoz

I understand its their responsibility, what I'm getting at is, as far as I understand it, job sponsored visa's will only be granted if there are no or an insufficient number of permanent residents to fore-fill the needs job sector in question. From the little research I have done, it seems the only industries getting granted applications are hospo, agriculture and construction. My employers are as little or less than informed as me regarding this.

Anyway, as you said, to save some pain, I really dont want to be hanging around for 6 weeks while they process the application, not being able to work, just for them to say no.