Woman using shady tactics?

She has paid fees to study here, is contributing by working and is in a relationship with a UK citizen. To be honest there are far more things to worry about and I would leave it to her employers and authorities to manage their responsibilities in relation to this.

Doesn't seem your business and it doesn't seem certain you know the full story. Saying you disapprove would be one thing but 'extremely uncomfortable' feels like needless melodrama.

If you believe a crime is being committed then it is your business for the good of society and upholding law and order.

It strikes me that the UKVI would do more than a cursory search to check that this company existed before extending her visa. Especially under the current government.

If you believe a crime is being committed then it is your business for the good of society and upholding law and order.

Those of oriental origin are typically not offensive culturally or ethnically and she is employed. So I’m not overly bothered.

That said, you should report this to the Home Office if you believe that she is not acting in good faith.

Isn't contributing to anything as her job and company is shady and only to secure a visa

Isn't contributing to anything as her job and company is shady and only to secure a visa

Yes I think they would so it themselves as the government do have the genuine vacancy requirement and this post is not genuine. She was promoted only within 3 months and just before her current visa would expire. That itself is a red flag because to progress from a sales assistant to property executive, you need at least 6-8 months or sometimes even a year but how does somebody join a company as a sales assistant then by December is appointed as the property executive. The current visa expires in March hence all this planning

My flatmate is a 32 year old woman and is manipulating the visa system to gain a work visa. She did her MA and got the graduate route in 2022. Since then she has has held the role of Chinese teacher, and steward on a 0 hour contract. After that she worked full time for one of the museums as a visitor assistant.

However she was constantly applying for jobs in companies and was buying tests and question and answer packages from China (she's chinese) for KPMG etc to pass their tests. However, she never passed the interviews because her spoken English is quite poor and once she failed the tests as the test questions were different than what she received in the test package.

She left for China on November 2022 and returned in early February 2023 and quickly started dating a white guy. Since then she's acted in very shady ways. She never applied for any jobs but was using WeChat to get jobs in Chinese companies in London. She told me she got a job in March 23 as an educational consultant at a Chinese student agency through WeChat, hoping they will provide her with a visa. However by June, the company informed her that they cannot sponsor her because her role does not meet the criteria set by Home Office.

She quit the job immediately and got in contact with her Chinese friends who provided her with job at a Chinese real estate company by Aug 23 as a sales assistant. She seemed quite happy and was posting on her social media about how she's looking forward to the next chapter in her life. By December 23, she told me how she was promoted to a property sales executive.

I was quite surprised at the swift promotion in just 4 months and she finally revealed that since her graduate visa expires in March 2022, she had contacted her friends who connected her to this company and they assured her that they would promote her from a sales assistant to an executive post just before her visa would expire. Hence, she would be able to secure a work visa through this way

The company she works for has a limited online presence with low LinkedIn followers, has no job or property listings on their website and has an alert ⚠️ sign before the URL warning users to not enter any information on this site.

She has moved in with the white boyfriend and was joking about how she fooled the immigration authorities and now she can live in the UK.

I was extremely uncomfortable hearing this and now I don't know if I should inform someone or just let it be and let her do what she wants.
Any ideas?

My flatmate is a 32 year old woman and is manipulating the visa system to gain a work visa. She did her MA and got the graduate route in 2022. Since then she has has held the role of Chinese teacher, and steward on a 0 hour contract. After that she worked full time for one of the museums as a visitor assistant.

However she was constantly applying for jobs in companies and was buying tests and question and answer packages from China (she's chinese) for KPMG etc to pass their tests. However, she never passed the interviews because her spoken English is quite poor and once she failed the tests as the test questions were different than what she received in the test package.

She left for China on November 2022 and returned in early February 2023 and quickly started dating a white guy. Since then she's acted in very shady ways. She never applied for any jobs but was using WeChat to get jobs in Chinese companies in London. She told me she got a job in March 23 as an educational consultant at a Chinese student agency through WeChat, hoping they will provide her with a visa. However by June, the company informed her that they cannot sponsor her because her role does not meet the criteria set by Home Office.

She quit the job immediately and got in contact with her Chinese friends who provided her with job at a Chinese real estate company by Aug 23 as a sales assistant. She seemed quite happy and was posting on her social media about how she's looking forward to the next chapter in her life. By December 23, she told me how she was promoted to a property sales executive.

I was quite surprised at the swift promotion in just 4 months and she finally revealed that since her graduate visa expires in March 2022, she had contacted her friends who connected her to this company and they assured her that they would promote her from a sales assistant to an executive post just before her visa would expire. Hence, she would be able to secure a work visa through this way

The company she works for has a limited online presence with low LinkedIn followers, has no job or property listings on their website and has an alert ⚠️ sign before the URL warning users to not enter any information on this site.

She has moved in with the white boyfriend and was joking about how she fooled the immigration authorities and now she can live in the UK.

I was extremely uncomfortable hearing this and now I don't know if I should inform someone or just let it be and let her do what she wants.
Any ideas?

Do you have any evidence of the sponsoring company doing anything illegal or her providing false information to the authorities to obtain a visa?

There are some very dodgy sponsorship providing companies that are properly registered for all taxes and UKVI licenced as sponsors that are plausible appearing but in reality 'fronts' for criminal schemes.
Often intended to enable ineligible overseas citizens to contravene immigration requirements by masquerading as highly skilled workers on permanent contracts/experienced temporary workers required to meet seasonal demand.

Sometimes fronting for either organised crime gangs that make a lot of profit from people trafficking.
Or entering into conspiracies with dishonest immigration advisors and gangmaster groups to provide their corrupt overseas citizen clients with 'guaranteed visa packages'.
Mostly obtained through creating mountains of fake paperwork to accompany highly paid sponsored jobs that only exist on paper or when sending out monthly/weekly/annual to the sponsored employees.

Hmmm I guess if you like, you could email someone for sure, there's no harm in it as yes it doesn't seem right. I personally know a person whose visa is expiring this year meaning they would obviously have to leave the UK soon so they have gone and married a masters student who can keep them here for an extra two years. So people are doing all sorts of things just to stay. Give emailing someone a go and see how they respond ig.