Hi everyone,
I will be doing an internship in London this summer. This means I had to apply for a Tier 5 "temporary worker" visa, and part of the application asked me about my accommodation and specifically where I will stay.
My company specifically warned me not to agree to taking any flat until I arrived in the city. I was going to try AirBNB for the first 3-4 days, until I found a place to stay. but then I made the huge mistake of contacting several hosts and asking them if I could use their flat's address on my visa application, and then changing my address once I found a permanent flat. Unsurprisingly (?) they all rejected my request and in this way I managed to lose out on the chance to stay at 3 or 4 lovely places close to my work. X( (No Good deed goes unpunished right?)
Now I am thinking about just making a request the normal way and not telling the host that I would put their address on my application, but this seems a bit unethical. At the same time, I don't know if UK Immigration is going to check it all that carefully.
Has anyone experienced anything similar to this before? If I use AirBNB would showing just a confirmation or receipt from the website be enough? Or would I need to get a letter of invitation from the host? Should I just suck it up and get a hotel?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!
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