for your reply. Does this mean that as a local hire, she will, as a rule, be entitled to less benefits. The job she has applied for carries a good package including accomodation/ allowances/ utilities/ etc.

Our thoughts are that, as we will both be given accomodation, will it be better to be sponsored by her potential company and take an accomodation allowance rather than be sponsored by me and potentially lose that allowance if she is employed as a "local hire".

She is being interviewed in London and employed as an ex-pat.

Confused !!