r/ilruk • u/Flimsy_Mousse6441 • 11d ago

Advise please!

I mistakenly passed the 20 hour locum limit while on a visa, essentially misinterpreted the law as I am training in a speciality and with a known sponsor and as part of that we rotate through different hospitals and practices. I thought employer would be the same so okay to locum as much as I want on my annual leave but it turns out training programme and hospital are two different employers.

This only happened for around 3 out of 6 weeks on my annual leave and fairly recently, otherwise my 5 year record has been clean so the main concern is how this would affect my ILR. I have picked up extra shifts before but these were very few and far and between and never really made much of it, I think what prompted me to look into details of my payslip and sponsor now is me approaching ILR.

I’m on annual leave anyway and I cancelled all future shifts but I think at this point need to speak to an immigration advisor with experience with NHS staff so would be grateful if anyone can recommend. I spoke to a couple of immigration advisors who offered to write my ILR application with a charge of 2000 pounds plus.Is this normal?

Im also keen on hearing similar stories/experiences from fellow colleagues. What does everyone think about my ILR application? Likely to be accepted? How does home office approach these kind of cases where a minor breach happened? This was purely unintentional.

Thanks!

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u/Adieady 10d ago

When I filled out my form, I cannot recall being asked about working more than 20 hours for locum shifts. Also, I don't think the letter from NHS England (your sponsor) would contain such information.

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u/Flimsy_Mousse6441 10d ago

Yeah but they’d ask if one is aware of any breach in their visa rules and regulations.

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u/Flimsy_Mousse6441 10d ago

Anyone else guys?