DAUK was alerted by a significant number of doctors to delays in issuing Certificate’s of Sponsorship (COS) and Biometric Residence Permits (BRP). Without these necessary bits of “red tape” Doctors are unable to take up jobs they have been offered, secure places to rent/get a mortgage. They are having to give up offers of work, leaving hospitals and GP surgeries short staffed due to these unnecessary bureaucratic delays. 

Our letter to Health Education England expressing our concerns and their reply are below:

IMG COS crisis letter to HEE July 22 1 1
IMG COS crisis letter to HEE July 22 2
DAUK Letter Respon 1107 tr page 0001
DAUK Letter Respon 1107 tr page 0002

DAUK also wrote to the Home Office regarding the same issue. We await a response

BRP applications for IMG doctors need to expedite 1