Skilled sponsor licence

Education institutions seeking to fill vacancies may look to sponsor migrant workers. We can assist your organisation to apply for a sponsor licence to enable you to hire foreign nationals.

We offer a full service, or we can provide a review of documents service. As part of this support, we can also carry out a pre-licence audit so that you are aware of the compliance duties required from a sponsor.

We can provide a full service offering to assist any of your new hires, whether inside or outside of the UK, and current employees extending their visas with the whole visa application process under the Skilled Worker route. We provide an end-to-end service and can liaise with your employees directly to ensure a smooth process. Alternatively, we can offer an ad hoc review service to assess key documents prior to the visa application submission.

Being a sponsor carries a high level of responsibility - we can provide training and advice on the compliance requirements to ensure that you maintain your A-rating licence.

We assist education providers in applying for and renewing a licence to sponsor international students to come to the UK under the Student or Child Student route. We advise on eligibility, compliance and sponsor licence duties, along with providing full support through the application process.

For education providers who hold a licence, we assist and advise on sponsoring students under the Student route, and Temporary Students under the Short-term student route for certain courses.

We offer a fixed costs audit to ensure that your organisation is complying with its sponsor duties as a skilled worker and/or a student sponsor. This includes reviewing your systems, processes and documentation. We also speak with key personnel to ensure that they are aware of the Home Office duties and requirements. This is particularly helpful should the Home Office notify you, or turn up unannounced (as they are permitted to do), that they are attending your premises to carry out an official audit.

We can provide training for sponsors on a range of compliance issues, including completing right to work checks, navigating the Sponsor Management System and advising on the documents that are required on file for each employee and/or students. If you have any specific training requests, we can accommodate these and provide a bespoke session for you.

There are certain policies and procedures that an employer needs to follow when hiring foreign nationals. These include right to work check policies and the monitoring of visa expiry dates. We can review your current policies and advise on their effectiveness, or alternatively we can work with you to produce new documentation.