Sponsorship Licences

If you’re a registered company in the UK and looking to employ someone from outside the European Economic Area you will need to obtain a sponsorship licence. You will need to sponsor your potential employees for them to legally enter the UK to work, even if the work will be unpaid i.e. charity and volunteer work. Our expert lawyers are here to guide you through the whole process.

The points based system is used to allow only licenced sponsors to be eligible to issue potential migrant employees with a Certificate of Sponsorship.

For your organisation to successfully apply for a licence and be added to the register of sponsors you must prove that you meet the following criteria:  

• Your organisation is a bona fide and legitimate organisation

• Your organisation is working within the law

• There are no reasons to believe that your organisation poses a threat to immigration control; and

• Your organisation is committed to fulfilling its sponsorship duties, and there are procedures in place to monitor immigration compliance

What we can do for you;

• Tailored advice for your application to be in the strongest possible position to be accepted
  
• Expert review of your documents
  
• Provide a second opinion
  
• Entrust us completely with your sponsorship licence application
  
• Advise and represent you in making representations in support of their immigration matters

Ongoing services

Once the licence is obtained, our optional additional services include:

1. Obtaining further Tier 2 certificates for new and existing employees
   
2. Visa applications for new staff that you may wish to employ
3. Visa extension applications for existing employees 
4. Ongoing compliance and maintenance of the Sponsor Management System
5. Illegal working audits and compliance
6. Training in the above for key HR and non HR staff
7. All other forms of UK immigration advice