Looking for work??

[Liam and Kara 6]

Hey Guys

How are people getting on with looking for work?

I got my work authorization card the other week, all started well..

got offered a job after 5 days, with a start date and everything pending references

and background checks drug test etc.....

Anyway, the company wanted references from EVERY employer i had previously, which i gave them

then they wanted all my information, mainly what i had used and received in the visa process,

you know, visa, i94, passport, drivers license, ssn, police records address id you name it i gave them it.

i get a call a week after job offer to say they could not contact past employers, so i get the names and

email addresses and phone numbers, eventually they contact them...all well and good.

then they call me up to say they are struggling to get the police report from the UK, i explain i gave

them the latest one required before i left the UK for homeland security purposes but they insist on they

must have it, i explain they are only going to get the same as i have given them....

anyway, start day comes and goes they are still waiting on police report...they say there is a next start date

July 5th but i might have to be interviewed again......

Has anyone else had any problems like this i feel as though i am never going to get anywhere being a non national.

please let me have your experiences or just a few words to give me a boost.

thanks in advance

Liam

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Hey Guys

How are people getting on with looking for work?

I got my work authorization card the other week, all started well..

got offered a job after 5 days, with a start date and everything pending references

and background checks drug test etc.....

Anyway, the company wanted references from EVERY employer i had previously, which i gave them

then they wanted all my information, mainly what i had used and received in the visa process,

you know, visa, i94, passport, drivers license, ssn, police records address id you name it i gave them it.

i get a call a week after job offer to say they could not contact past employers, so i get the names and

email addresses and phone numbers, eventually they contact them...all well and good.

then they call me up to say they are struggling to get the police report from the UK, i explain i gave

them the latest one required before i left the UK for homeland security purposes but they insist on they

must have it, i explain they are only going to get the same as i have given them....

anyway, start day comes and goes they are still waiting on police report...they say there is a next start date

July 5th but i might have to be interviewed again......

Has anyone else had any problems like this i feel as though i am never going to get anywhere being a non national.

please let me have your experiences or just a few words to give me a boost.

thanks in advance

Liam

Wacko employers are frustrating to everyone. Not just immigrants.

The litigious society we have become has forced employers to be very careful to cover their @ss before hiring someone as it gets increasingly difficult to fire anyone. We are also in a tight job market and their are lots of applicants for each job, it is a "buyers market"

Not sure if this helps you out, but at least it is not personal and not because you are an immigrant. Besides you guys from UK almost speak English, so you should have a better time than others getting a job, maybe just one or two clicks tougher than an Aussie

You have run into a hardliner employer. I hope it is worth the trouble.

[payxibka 10,047]

not a K-1 visa issue... moving thread to "working/traveling" forum