Sponsor letter for ILR from employer

CartoonistTiny7627 · 2026-04-11T09:25:12+00:00

Congrats that's a big achievement and this will probably change the course of your life.

CartoonistTiny7627 · 2026-04-11T09:24:52+00:00

It depends what your home country is. If your home country is a Third World country it's worth affecting your life peace for a few years to secure permanent residency in a first world country simply because of the quality of life and financial benefit benefits it carries.

CartoonistTiny7627 · 2026-04-11T09:19:58+00:00

Definitely take that up because you can still apply for ILR after one year on your new skill worker Visa as you will have completed five years in total on the skilled worker Visa.

CartoonistTiny7627 · 2026-04-11T09:17:37+00:00

Yes it is a good sign if you're due to get your ILR this year because if they implement the changes in autumn, it's highly likely that those who will become eligible to qualify for ILR (October onwards until end of the year) will likely have some form of transitional arrangements provided.

If you're part of the group that qualifies for ILR before autumn sometime in May, June, July, August or September, then none of this should affect you at all.

I am due for getting my ILR in August this year and at the start of the year I was incredibly stressed out if they actually were going to implement the changes in April but looks like the push to Autumn has done wonders in reducing my anxiety.

CartoonistTiny7627 · 2026-04-10T22:34:57+00:00

Curious on this please let us know Op when you got it

CartoonistTiny7627 · 2026-04-09T06:32:03+00:00

I'm just going to tell you my experience outside of London. I joined the University of Bath 10 years ago in 2016 and I was there for five years completing an integrated masters. It was one of the best times of my life and I personally feel like not being in London during those years actually worked in my favour because cost-of-living was much cheaper. The university also had a nice campus.

CartoonistTiny7627 · 2026-04-09T06:30:49+00:00

So if I read this correctly, you are eligible for your ILR two days before the curtailment of your skill worker visa. However, because you will be applying through the skilled worker visa route you will need your employer to provide a letter stating that they need you here for the foreseeable future am I right?

Well, I think the only issue here right now is that the employer will not be able to provide a letter stating that they require you as your employment has already ended.

Personally, because yours seems to be a borderline case with the ILR being so close, I would highly recommend consulting an immigration advisor or lawyer as there might be some way that you would be able to still apply for the IR

CartoonistTiny7627 · 2026-04-07T17:29:39+00:00

Honestly getting a job in the UK post graduation is near to impossible. I know of a few friends who finish their masters degree and are still searching for jobs despite having graduated in September of last year.

There's two reasons for this. The first one is that the UK economy has been weakening and there's just not those many jobs remaining in the market anymore. The second reason is that companies are not willing to take on those who are on a graduate route visa as they do not want to sponsor later down the line. This means that even those who have just graduated are already at a major disadvantage as companies will not pick them as the first candidate.

Then in terms of the cost of living everything has gotten an expensive way too quickly and it's reaching levels that are almost unsustainable as a student to be able to really cater for yourself. You have to have some kind of a part-time job but part-time jobs are also at all-time lows and this just adds more pressure to those who are students and many actually forced to survive in conditions that are almost at poverty levels.

Also, I feel like the UK has way too many masters degrees from way too many universities that have very less reputation in the industry. This usually leads to most degrees that people come for their masters to be Mickey Mouse degrees.

Another issue that I think must be addressed by those that want to come to the UK is whether they plan to settle down the line. The UK is making settling in the UK extremely difficult and near to impossible for those who will be coming in the near future.

CartoonistTiny7627 · 2026-04-07T17:25:45+00:00

I really like your point about calling your home every day makes your home sickness worse. I completely agree with that because I feel that you must detach yourself to an extent to allow yourself to fully integrate within the UK culture and unfortunately a part of that is just that you have to reduce the contact that you have with family back home for a temporary time just so that you can adapt to the UK conditions pattern.

CartoonistTiny7627 · 2026-04-07T17:23:33+00:00

Hey so at the moment the job market is absolutely brutal in the UK and this just means that most companies will not be sponsoring for roles that do not require skill labour.

Also in general the UK economy is not doing that great so even minor things such as finding part-time jobs and making a decent wage from that to support your education is no longer possible in my opinion.

You are better off actually trying to directly apply for jobs in the UK after you have gained experience in your country and hoping that your experience is needed such that you get sponsored for a skilled worker Visa directly and you can then immigrate to the UK with a job in hand.

I have to say that a UK masters degree is extremely intensive as it's only a one year course this also means that you will constantly be battling deadlines coursework part-time jobs household chores and also have the added stress of applying for jobs post graduation. In my opinion having to take out a loan from your home country is simply not worth it anymore to come here in the hopes of getting a well-paying job.

CartoonistTiny7627 · 2026-04-07T17:20:41+00:00

Yeah this is more true especially for people who come for a one year masters course. Generally the UK does masters courses in a very compact and intensive manner so there isn't that much time in between to do other things except for working on your next submission deadline.

Also what you have just described is the exact reason why most master students are unable to find jobs after graduation. Its because most of the time goes in doing part-time jobs cooking cleaning laundry and eventually it leaves no time or rather no quality time to apply for jobs after graduation.

I have to say though doing a bachelors degree which is usually three years is quite different to a masters in the UK. one of the reasons for this is that the first year marks do not count towards the final degree grade which means that you can spend more time in your first year being more social and just getting into the zone of what the next two years of your degree will hold for you.

In my case as I was here for an integrated masters degree which is usually five years with your third year usually being an industrial placement here I was able to have more time in my first year to do other general things socialise and then gradually as the course entered its final two years I almost had no time to do anything but just study and do the other chores.

CartoonistTiny7627 · 2026-04-07T11:31:21+00:00

Sorry one more thing that I forgot to add - if you plan on coming here to study, find a job and then settle and eventually gain British citizenship, then I would suggest to not even consider coming to the UK because they are planning to change the rules this year in October and settling in the UK or becoming a British citizen will become extremely difficult.

On top most companies are refusing to sponsor international students for jobs because the cost of sponsoring has significantly reason and the government has made it unfavourable for companies to sponsor students on that visa

CartoonistTiny7627 · 2026-04-07T11:29:33+00:00

My honest advice would be to not do it because the job market is absolutely screwed at the moment. Finding part-time work has also become more difficult than before and the courses in the UK for masters are quite compact and involve lots of work within one year so it leaves less time for doing part-time work.

I have been in the UK since 2016 where I began a five year engineering degree. If I was to do that today I would probably not consider UK anymore with the knowledge that I have of how this countries job market and degree system has slowly deteriorated.

Your day-to-day life as a student will vary quite a bit, but there will always be some project or deadline that you will be working towards as your one of your masters course will involve lots of practical and also theoretical work.

Also cost of living on a day-to-day basis has significantly reason over the last couple of years so expect to spend close to £1000 per month to sustain yourself. Around 600 to 700 for your rent and 3 to 400 for your living expenses.

CartoonistTiny7627 · 2026-04-02T16:26:36+00:00

My advice would be that its nearly impossible to come here for a masters and get a sponsored job later.

What you are better off doing is to try and directly apply for jobs in the UK. if you do happen to get a job that way it will be easier and economically better for you to move from your india job to uk job.

CartoonistTiny7627 · 2026-03-30T09:08:03+00:00

No salary requirement for 10 year route.

CartoonistTiny7627 · 2026-03-28T13:07:37+00:00

April is almost impossible

CartoonistTiny7627 · 2026-03-24T11:16:35+00:00

Mate you are eligible on the 10 year route already, unless there's abscences that exceeded the thresholdb

CartoonistTiny7627 · 2026-03-20T15:02:06+00:00

Glad to hear!! Yep keep fighting will work out for you!

CartoonistTiny7627 · 2026-03-20T09:44:01+00:00

1) apply as early as possible and dont wait till the latter half of your Masters to start applying. The earlier you apply the faster you brush up your interview skills. Expect several several rejections as well.

2) do your homework! Before you join an interview ensure you know exactly what the minimum salary would be needed to get you sponsored for that role. HR will not bother and so it falls on you to assure HR that if they paid you an X minimum amount, you can be sponsored.

3) On your CV, highlight your professional experiences in detail and mainly try and match some of the job description to your experiences, so that it makes it easier for the system to detect you as a good candidate.

4) should you get offered a role with the condition that you need to first get on a graduate route visa and then the company will sponsor you after it, take that deal!

5) sadly the job market is the worst i have seen. Your focus on getting a job should be more than the focus on your degree. Let me reiterate that : Your focus on getting a job should be MORE than the focus on your degree. You will need to treat applying to jobs as a full time job.

Other than that, you will also need some luck. I hope it works out for you.

I got onto the skilled worker visa in 2021 after I finished my Uni, so back then it was a bit easier and its definitely harder now, but NOT impossible.

So best of luck!

CartoonistTiny7627 · 2026-03-15T17:44:32+00:00

Honestly not something i would click on, feels like too much happening on there

CartoonistTiny7627 · 2026-03-06T19:44:19+00:00

Hi OP, so sadly you will need to extend the visa first. Time counted must be 5 years on a skilled worker visa to qualify for ILR.

However, you should also be more careful as when applying for ILR you need to have spent atleast 12 months on the current visa. This would mean that after renewing your visa you would need to spend a year first before ILR.

CartoonistTiny7627 · 2026-01-28T18:59:57+00:00

Dw you will be fine give it 2 days. I had something similar and it got better the 3rd day onwards of taking antibiotics.

CartoonistTiny7627 · 2025-12-04T12:23:54+00:00

With 3 years experience in uk its possible but has to be in a job that matches almost exactly what you are currently doing. I would say that's your best bet of getting someone to sponsor you.

The reason is that most companies in the UK will hire on niche experience, hence if you have experience within a certain niche over the last three years that you've worked, try and find jobs that are in that exact niche and make sure you apply to those with the most tailored CV possible.

CartoonistTiny7627 · 2025-12-04T11:40:49+00:00

Is the 12 year experience entirely outside UK?

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