I too lodged my case with the London office and was without a job offer and I didn't have to provide any evidence of funds.
The visa offered and the one that you will be applying for is the Resident visa. If immigration aren't convinced you will be able to find a job they may elect to offer you a job search visa and give you 9 months to find a skilled job before approving your resident visa.
There is a sticky thread I have already supplied with questions for the immigration interview and if you use the search facility others have posted the questions they were asked.
sorry escapedtonz, I'm really sorry i have questions to ask again.
both of our jobs are in the long term shortage list.
I have a degree in construction management, and diploma that majors in Quantity Surveying. and my husband does network engineering.
but the tricky part is that, i have approximately 2-3 years of experience in Quantity Surveying. Then after i did a career change for the next 3 years.
i think we have border line of 140pts at the moment, and i have read and understand from couple of friends that their EOI got rejected despite having sufficient points. (which we thought that it might be because there is no job offered yet).
Would there be any chance that we would be granted a job search visa before resident visa?
and we are married for less than 12 months, but we did not fulfil staying together for 12 months. But we do have a joint account for the past 2 years.
We have also consulted migration consultant, but we hope that we could do it on our own to save those costs instead.
right at this moment, we are feeling a little helpless. besides looking for a job, we are unsure whether should we go ahead with the application of EOI, (for the fear that there is a high chance that it would be rejected) or.. should we just wait for an offer..
Hopefully you could enlighten us..