We help you comply with complex and fast-changing sponsor compliance requirements, working with businesses to ensure they obtain and maintain their sponsor licence so they can bring critical talent to the UK.
Our team provides clear and pragmatic guidance and support throughout the process from registering as a sponsor and advising on meeting the relevant record-keeping and reporting obligations to ensuring the eligibility of prospective hires for sponsorship and obtaining their visas. We also advise on ad hoc immigration queries.
Our experience includes
- Advising a group of beverage companies on all UK immigration matters and acting as Level 1 Users on both sponsor licences.
- Advising a pharmaceutical company headquartered in India on its UK immigration matters and acting as Level 1 Users, including advising in relation to a successful Skilled Worker application for an existing employee switching from the Dependant Partner route, and successfully obtaining a two-year long-term business visit visa application.
- Providing Sonardyne, a leading independent global provider of underwater technology, strategic advice on sponsor compliance, Skilled Worker applications, and immigration issues to consider in relation to the dismissal of sponsored workers.
- Advising a provider of fraud prevention software on immigration implications arising from a corporate transaction and its new sponsor licence, and on an application for Indefinite Leave to Remain under the British National (Overseas) route for one of its Hong Kong national employees.
- Advising Collins River Enterprises (t/a Uber Boat by Thames Clippers) on its sponsor licence application and in relation to a Skilled Worker application.
How we help
- Preparing sponsor licence applications and reviewing HR systems for compliance. Ensuring that the role, salary and the sponsored worker meets Home Office criteria for sponsorship.
- Acting as Level 1 Users on the sponsor licence, applying for and issuing Certificates of Sponsorship, and making sponsor notifications.
- Supporting visa applications and extension and indefinite leave to remain immigration applications for workers and their families.
- Advising on sponsor compliance, including reporting and record keeping duties and conducting mock Home Office audits.
- Advising on the immigration aspects of TUPE transfers, sales and acquisitions and corporate restructures, and guiding businesses through the actions they need to take to ensure they can continue to sponsor workers.
- Advising on right to work checks and the prevention of illegal working.
- Ensuring employment contracts, policies and secondment agreements comply with immigration requirements.
- Drafting clawback agreements to enable businesses to recoup certain immigration fees.
- Providing bespoke immigration and sponsor licence training to HR teams.
