My language school says I cannot apply for a change to a working visa on my own

Basically the title.

I talked to the school that I want to get a copy of my attendance record but the head teacher only gave a copy of my attendance in a literal sticky note saying 104/108 as in 104 days out of 108, I attended school.

So I asked for an actual document showing my record and they said that they don’t know what that is supposed to look like.

Further down the conversation, they asked if I have already went to immigration, etc. and they said that I cannot go to immigration and do the entire visa change by myself and I need the school’s permission to do it.

I’d like to know if there is any truth to this? And should I just go and try changing my visa type since I have a legitimate job offer, a college degree, and a copy of my grades in language school showing all As but for some reason they just don’t want to give a record of my attendance. I haven’t quit the school at the moment.

Thank you (again) in advance.

2 comments
  1. The sponsoring employer needs to change the visa and support it, not your current visa sponsor. They can’t change it to anything.

    You also cannot work for your new employer until the visa type has been changed.

  2. What school are you going to? My school loves helping changing visas because they have to report it to MoJ and they get brownie points with MoJ for successfully advancing someone to a higher visa. Plus they love to put that their students got hired or went to higher education in their marketing.

    As other pointed out, your new sponsor has to do everything and in the meantime you have keep going to school until your employer gets you the work visa.

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