The home office has made it all the easier for South Africans to migrate to the UK. With 8 new occupations rolled out, South Africans see it as a rising opportunity for work and better living conditions offered by the UK. Several routes of visas can be considered to migraine to the UK. A skilled worker visa is a point-based visa wherein the applicant needs to secure 70 points and will be granted to work in the UK for 5 years if the applicant who has applied for this visa has a job offer from a UK employer and sponsorship to sustain. The intra-company transfer visa is another option along with a skilled worker visa. The Ancestry visa route allows South Africans to claim this visa if their family ties are already living in the UK. However, important requirements are, intention to work for long, grandparents living in the UK. A spouse visa also gives you a way to migrate to the UK. You can live for 2.5 years on this visa and later get it extended to a further 2.5 years. Having these visas directly opens a route to ILR and British citizenship. One can self apply through an online process or could apply through a UK immigration lawyer.
Compliance with your sponsor licence may turn out to be critical for UK employers who are heavily dependent on international hiring. Sponsor licence suspension can be a business disaster as you can lose the right to bring in a newly hired worker from outside Europe or extend the stay of your existing employee. Here, we introduce some key compliance tips that will prevent suspension and keep your business in harmony with Home Office demands. What is Sponsor License Suspension? A sponsor licence suspension will occur if the Home Office perceives certain major infringements in your compliance with the duties of sponsorship. The reasons that will lead to suspension are failure to conduct the right-to-work check properly, sufficient or proper record-keeping, reporting changes of circumstances of employees, and your employees being employed in roles different from their designated occupation. A suspension not only disrupts your hiring of new talent, but it could harm your company's rep...