VictoryMBA wrote:
Living and working in london has always been in the back of my mind as something that I would like to do one day. Let me pose a scenario, and someone please tell me if I am correct in my analysis.
I go to one of those schools listed on the london banking days site (although I'm sure there are plenty of other schools that send kids to london), and I manage to secure a summer internship at a bank in london. I do really well and they offer me a full-time job upon graduation, and so I move my life to the UK. Are you guys saying that because I made less than $70k/yr (much less actually) prior to my MBA, I would be denied a visa to work at this particular company? Even if they were paying me a substantial post MBA salary?
Victory, I don't remember where you're from, but it's unlikely that you won't get a VISA in London, even with the changes in HSMP, in UK to get a VISA is still much easier then other places. I won't tell my whole SAGA with VISA here in Portugal, but if I knew how hard this process would be, perhaps I wouldn't have accepted to come here in the first place (seriously sometimes it's not just boring to loose days in lines).
Anyway, I know many MBA graduates from several different schools and countries who are now in London. From GSB I know 1 Brazilian guy working to GS and another who made a summer internship at Barx and was offered a spot but he declined because he had a better offer somewhere else; from CBS a Brazilian guy working for Lehman, from NYU a Mexican gal working for Lehman, and Many others in BofA, HSBC, JP, and UBS (these are the banks I have more relationship with). Having and European passport would make things much easier.
These things change all the time, until last year, if you had an MBA from 50 listed schools, you automatically would have the 75 points, now they changed the rule, and they may in 2 years change once again, so I wouldn't worry now with how the things are, because they will probably be different. And if they want you they will get a VISA for you, even if you're going to Iberia
(TRUST ME, Portugal and Spain are places very hard to get Visa).