Overseas Workers
International or overseas Workers
Golden Recruit offers you the best work opportunities in England.
We aim to provide you with a specialized service individually tailored to meet your requirements. To provide you with a fully informed transition from the first time you contact us through to your successful placement and beyond.
We aim to ensure that Golden Recruit is a highly respected and established recruitment company operating from a London base. The directors and senior consultants have specialised in recruiting for the wider market place for a number of years and have also worked within Education, Engineering, Arts, Health, Resaurant, Hotel and Social Care organisations just to name a few. We manage a number of contracts throughout the London region and have the experience and contacts to place overseas workers throughout England. With knowledgeable and experienced consultants able to match your experience with the needs of clients, all the best placement opportunities will be open to you.
For those of you who wishe to take up employment in the United Kingdom needs to be in possession of a relevant valid and legitimate visa. There are a variety of visas available. It is advised that all candidates wishing to work in the UK should research each option thoroughly before applying.
Prior to your arrival in the UK we will provide you with a named consultant who will provide you with all the information you need including help with building your CV/Resume, terminology, and the laws and legislations to make your time in England a fulfilling and career enhancing one.
Golden Recruit will greet you when you land in the UK. We will then transfer you to short-term accommodation of your choice providing it is within London or the surrounding areas. We will support you in finding a permanent place to live after we have helped you to find suitable employment.
Obtaining a National Insurance Number and Opening a Bank Account
All workers in the UK need a National Insurance Number. We will provide you with the necessary information and documentation in order to obtain this. We are also able to assist you with the opening of a bank account but you must bring a reference from your bank overseas.
Working Holiday Visa
This visa allows young Commonwealth citizens, who do not have commitments, which require them to earn a regular wage, to come to the UK for an extended holiday. They may help fund the holiday by working in the UK up to a maximum period of two years. To qualify as a working holidaymaker you must:
Be a Commonwealth citizen; and
Be unmarried or be married to a person who meets the requirements as a working holidaymaker in their own right; and
Have the means to pay for a return or onward journey; and
Be able and intend to maintain and accommodate themselves without recourse to public funds; and
Intend to take employment incidental to a holiday but not engage in business; and
Not have dependant children, any of whom are 5 years of age or over, or commitments which would require them to earn a regular income; and
Intend to leave the UK at the end of the working holiday; and
Hold a valid visa for entry in this capacity.
If a persons specific purpose in coming to the UK is to gain full-time work, they will not qualify under the Immigration Rules as a working holidaymaker.
Ancestry Visa
Ancestry visas allow candidates who are Commonwealth citizens with strong ancestral ties, to become eligible to live and work unrestrictedly in the UK for up to 4 years. To qualify for an Ancestry Visa you must;
Be at least 17 years old; and
Be a Commonwealth citizen; and
Have a grandparent born in the United Kingdom *; and
Be able to work and genuinely intend to take or seek employment in the UK
Be able to maintain and accommodate themselves in the UK without recourse to public funds
Settlement Visa/Spouse Entry Clearance
Accompanying dependants and spouses of British citizens or candidates with UK settlement status who wish to travel to the UK , must get Entry Clearance from their British Embassy. There are a number of conditions that must be met before family members are allowed to join relatives or partners who have settled in the UK .
Right of Abode
Candidates, or their parents who were born in the UK , may apply for the Right of Abode. If this is granted you are entirely free from UK immigration control. Candidates do not need to have their passport stamped by an immigration officer on entry to the UK , and are entitled to live and work in the UK indefinitely.
Work Permit
We can help you to obtain a work permit through an employer due to the shortage of skilled workers within the UK at present.
Work permits are valid for 5 years, however if candidates change positions they will need to reapply.