For sponsor licence holders whose CoS allocation expires more than three months from 23 March 2023, sponsors will still need to manually renew their annual allocation over the coming year.

Legal fees for the sponsor licence application are usually around £3,500 including compliance training and auditing. In some instances, immigration law firms offer assistance on a no-win, no-fee basis ...

The UK Home Office will refund application fees to sponsors in the renewal process and urges them to verify their license expiry through the online Sponsorship Management System (SMS).

The sponsoring employer must hold a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS), which is required for the visa application process.

The Home Office has updated the Sponsor Guidance on Workers and Temporary Workers on 9 November 2022. The guidance contains important information about obligations and compliance processes for UK ...

Selected candidates will receive an invitation to apply for a visa. Once approved, the visa will allow them to stay in the UK for two years without the need for a sponsor or job offer.

The Home Office has launched a priority service for businesses that wish to bring in overseas workers under the sponsor-licence scheme, but there are several unanswered questions about how it will ...

Only around 3% of employers currently hold a sponsor licence to employ EU or non-EU workers despite acute skills shortages, according to immigration law firm Migrate UK. According to the firm’s ...

Health worker, husband, 3 children told to leave UK after sponsor loses licence A care worker’s family have been told they must return to Ghana after they were unable to afford the cost of ...