About Us

1999. In the beginning....

Rafe Easter founded the business is 1999 after several successful years in the IT recruitment industry. During the technology boom there were many highly qualified candidates with valuable commercial experience abroad who wished to work in the UK, plus a wealth of eager UK employers with understaffed projects. The immigration advice available at the time was complex and expensive, so Rafe set out to simplify the process and to provide a clear and competitive service to link would be employees with UK employers, pioneering the concept of a No Win - No Fee immigration consultancy.

2010. Fast forward to 2010 and WPC now consists of a team of OISC accredited Immigration Consultants specialising in obtaining UK work permits, Tier 1 / Tier 2 visas and other visas for both corporate and private clients who wish to employ skilled overseas nationals.

We offer a competitively fixed-priced customer focused and responsive service that provides our clients with clear, accurate and impartial advice. We are totally committed to making the global labour market a reality by offering fresh concepts in the benefits of skilled overseas professionals joining the UK workforce.

We serve industries and Local Authority sectors from multinationals to developing companies, who wish to recruit non resident nationals or transfer existing employees from abroad into their UK operations. At Work Permit Consultants we comply with a strict policy of treating each client on an individual basis as well as an ethical obligation to protect all our clients' interests and confidentiality.

"We offer a FREE work permit assessment to determine an individual's eligibility and the level of post on offer, all in accordance with current government regulations. Then, through authoritative guidance we determine the most effective course of action in regard to the client and candidate's individual circumstances.”

We are committed to handling the frustrations of bureaucracy on behalf of our client as we have the knowledge, experience and foresight to work effectively, ensuring that all applications submitted are properly presented with regard to government regulations and representative of your business needs. Every day we manage the complex business of securing work permits for our clients, we handle the necessary documentation and legislation requirements dealing with the relevant government body and presenting each case in the most effective way possible enabling a rapid assessment of applications and once approved we advise on how to proceed, depending on nationality and location.

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