finding a job in the uk before I get my ancestry visa

Hi I am in the process of applying for a uk ancestry visa but would like to line up work before I get to the uk. How hard is it to line up a job before I actually get my ancestry visa?

Hi!

I'm guessing you are asking because of the requirement to show you intend to work. As long as you send in a letter stating that you intend on finding work, give them a bit of a game plan, etc. and include your resume and evidence of any degrees you may have, that should be sufficient.

To answer your question, my guess is that it can be pretty hard, but depends on what line of work you are in. I am in HR/IT and have Right of Abode, so I can already work, but have been asked by everyone if I am eligible to work in the UK, before asking me anything else.

Once I tell them I am eligible to work, the interview proceeds, and I have had a pretty decent response to my resume. The hangup I'm finding is that people want me to come over right away for in-person interviews. So I am hanging at the moment because I have had a bunch of 1st telephone interviews, and they are either waiting for me to get there for the next interview, or have told me they need to proceed before I am able to get there. Either way, that's not a bad problem to have, and it's given me a decent amount of confidence that I will be able to find something relatively quickly when I get over there.

Hope that helps!

I have found that it is very hard to get people to respond to you before you are in the United Kingdom. Sending off CVs with my Canadian address and phone number got very few replies, but since getting over here and sending out CVs with a UK address and phone #, I've got more replies.

If possible, can you put a UK address and phone # on your CV? If so, I think this would help you out.

Like lynndyhop, I got a few bites in Canada, but things pretty much stalled until I got over to the UK and could do in person interviews. I am also in IT, and usually employers will fly you out for interviews, but people here weren't so interested in paying for me to fly over. Even when I offered to pay, things stalled. Now I am here, things have picked up.

Sadly, it's my experience that you probably need to be over here before you'll get many bites.

Cheers,
Greg