sponsorship licence:
If you are a UK employer, and you want to hire non-UK workers you will need to obtain a sponsorship licence from the Home Office before you hire them under the point base system (Skilled workers visa or Temporary workers visa routes).
If you as a UK employer do not hold a valid sponsorship license you may not be able to hire migrant workers arriving in the UK after 1 January 2021 or extend visas for currently sponsored employees without a sponsorship license.
You as a sponsor must be fully aware of your immigration obligations and make sure that you have processes and systems in place to meet the requirements and maintain records to comply with the Home Office policies related to your sponsorship license.
It is vital for you as a business to demonstrate that you are an eligible business, in genuine need of a skilled worker, and have a system in place to make your initial application a success, as if the Home Office realizes that you are a business not in the genuine need of a skilled worker, they can refuse your application and put a 6 months ban on you to apply further for the sponsorship license and even after the ban your business will have a history and that may affect your subsequent application.
If you are a sponsor license holder, your business is always subject to inspection by the Home Office and they can ask you for the inspection at any time, so it is important for you to comply with the Home Office guidance related to your obligations as an employer and keep your records up to the date. During the inspection if Home Office finds out that you have not been complying with the guidance then as a consequence they may revoke the license and as well as your ability to sponsor a migrant worker and their permission to stay is also revoked.
applying for sponsorship licence:
To apply for a sponsorship license, an employer must prove that they are a genuine organization operating legally in the UK. You must demonstrate that you are aware of your Visa sponsorship obligations and that you are capable of meeting those obligations with appropriate staffing and recruitment systems and practices.
The primary contact person designated in the sponsorship application must be honest, and trustworthy. The Home Office conducts background checks on all candidates to ensure suitability for the role.
When applying for a Skilled Worker Sponsorship Permit, you must also prove that you are offering a suitable wage for your qualifications. To apply, complete the online license application and submit supporting documentation to meet the necessary certification requirements. This must be submitted within 5 days of the original application.
Failure to provide all required documentation may result in delays, rejection, and additional costs for your application.
Upon receipt of these documents, the organization may be subject to a compliance visit by his UKVI to assess whether a sponsorship license is granted.
Companies must also comply with the illegal employment requirement that workers must provide documentation proving their right to work before being hired by a UK company and a copy of this information must also be retained by the employer. must be Applications for sponsorship licenses typically take eight weeks to process. If a pre-licensing visit is made, it will take approximately 12 weeks.
Accelerated Sponsorship License Processing is now available for £500. The new Sponsored License Application Priority Service will determine your license application within 10 business days.
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sponsorship licence compliance & management:
If you succeed in applying, you must focus on the management of the sponsor license. It is always necessary to confirm that all compliance obligations are satisfied and there is no risk of being penalized in the home office in violation of the rules.
One of the main missions is to keep records for both organizations and all employees who have sponsored.
For all visa types, the license owner must hold a copy or electronic copy of the relevant pages of the immigrant passport. This includes pages, including personal identity, vacation stamps, immigration status, and staying periods. Employee absence record: Workers’ biometric residential permits, employment contracts, social security numbers, details of the previous and previous contacts, and other documents required for visa types.
In addition to keeping the records, sponsors are also required to take action and notify the Home Office of specific changes in the situation. In most cases, this is the Sponsorship Management System (SMS) within a specified deadline. The SMS is the Home Office’s primary source of information about your license and is expected to be kept up to date to provide a real-time snapshot of your organization’s licenses and all sponsored workers. increase.
For example, if the sponsor employee does not show up for work on the first day of work, if the sponsor employee’s contract is terminated early, or if the sponsor employee is absent for more than 10 days, the employer will provide 10 working days. His SMS should be updated within. There is a material change in the permit or subsidized employment contract.
Changes in organizational circumstances must be reported within 20 days, including if the company goes bankrupt, changes the nature of the business, or follows a reorganization or merger. Changes in company addresses or key personnel must also be reported.
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Frequently asked questions
You can hire from outside the UK or an immigrant subject to their immigration status, but it will entirely depend upon the immigration status of the immigrant and the conditions associated to his visa. As we know that the labour market in the UK is struggling to get skilled workers and if your business hire a worker who is a student or on a graduate visa or on the other category which allows you switching with in the UK then it is a good time for your business to retain such skilled workers by issuing them a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) and to issue a CoS you must have a Sponsorship Licence Holder.
You can sponsor overseas and in country skilled workers, on a long-term visa category under Skilled Workers route and similarly you can also hire Temporary Workers under the temporary workers’ route. It entirely depends upon the need of your business, whether if you want to hire a worker on a long term or short terms?
A sponsor licence is legally required by the UK business if they want to hire skilled labour from outside or inside the UK under skilled worker route or Temporary Worker route. It is crucial to have a sponsorship license before you hire someone as, if you hire someone without the sponsorship license then your may face huge penalties as well as imprisonment from the Home Office.
If you have a sponsorship license that makes you eligible to hire someone suitable for your business and as a result you can hire the best suitable worker for your business.
You or your company may be eligible for the sponsorship license if they are able to prove the following:
- You or your business is a legally operating in the UK.
- Key personnel must be, settled, or on the settlement route and be of good character and dependable.
- You must have an appropriate HR system to manage all sponsorship duties.
- You must offer a genuine and job suitable for skill requirements and meet minimum salary requirements.
We will brief you about all these points during our free consultation with you.
Sponsor licence applications are not as simple as they seem to be as they involve various legal, as well as technical information and an individual with non-legal knowledge may not be able to deal with the application properly and they may end up having their application refused with the 6-month ban.
So, it is vital to have your sponsorship application prepared professionally by a legal professional, as Home Office require you to provide the substantive information about the appointment of level 1 & 2 users, who is going to be the key person, what will be his day-to-day, duties, responsibilities and liabilities towards Home Office.
How they have to use the Sponsorship Management System (SMS) and how to report changes, how to comply with the Home Office directions and what will be the consequences if they fail to comply or fail report changes? To deal properly with some of the above matters you always need a legal professional to help, support and guide you through the whole process.
Our professional team specialise in the sponsorship license application services with the experienced, qualified and extremely professional individuals.
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Our professional team will deal with your application professionally with the most convenience from the beginning till the end.
Our professional team will deal with all the technical and legal issues related to your application in a simple and convenient way.
Our professional team will guide you though the eligibility of the job, minimum wage requirement, if required to demonstrate the resident labour test, though not required but the Home Office but Home Office still need to see the evidence.
Our professional team will equip you with all the relevant, as well as necessary information to make your sponsorship application a success.
We operate with the competitive price with the highest quality of client’s satisfaction.
We will be helping you to collate the perfect helping documentation for your sponsorship license application.
We will advise you about your HR and recruitment structures and techniques for your business to be compliant to the guidance of UKVI
Our professional team will advise you at the UKVI ‘genuineness’ check and assessing whether or not a potential worker satisfies the factors standards earlier than the sponsor troubles a certificate of sponsorship.
Our professional team will help you in licence renewal programs.
Our professional team is well equipped to deal with sponsor licence suspensions and revocations.
In the end we would like to say, if you want to apply for the Sponsorship License for your company then why not book a FREE Video or Audio Consultation with us and know more about sponsorship license for your company.
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