First Point International duo set up new company
Page 7
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
• by Melanie Hammond The former vice-president and another former employee of First Point International (Europe)—the company which failed to supply UK drivers with green cards for the US—have set up a new company called Global Horizons.
Philip Lyons and Brian Hi!ditch left FPI only a few weeks ago as part of a "slimming down of operations"; the new firm was registered as a limited company on 9 March with Lyons and Hilditch as directors. It is registered at Lyons' Middlesex home.
He dismisses suggestions that Global Horizons will provide immigration services similar to FPI: "I just thought it (Global Horizons) was rather a nice name. The corn parry is very much in the incubation stage." FPI's John Gillespie claims that FPI is in no way connected with Global.
Clients on EPI's truck drivers' programme are still being told to "sit tight". Gillespie says the firm has no legal obligation to clients after the 18-month contract expires but adds "service will continue to be provided...we are still here and more importantly so are the legal and client management teams. If this was a disappearing act we would have gone by now."
The winding-up order against the company will be heard on 3 May. Up to 300 drivers who were promised Green cards allowing them to work in the US are unlikely to get their money back.