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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...

If the application is successful, the UK Spouse Visa will allow the spouse of a British citizen or someone with settled status to reside in the UK. This, therefore, creates one very fundamental route through which many families can meet up and live their lives. However, considering the stringent conditions set and the detailed application procedure involved, it is a rather elusive process. This paper uncovers the complexities of obtaining a UK Spouse Visa and provides recommendations on navigating the spouse visa application. Requirements for the UK Spouse Visa Having met some of these below, you will stand a better chance of getting the Spouse Visa : Relationship Requirement: The applicant must have a legitimate connection with his spouse at the time of applying for a Visa and the connection must be real and existent. These are easily substantiated by means of a marriage certificate, joint tenancy agreements, and phone records. Financial Requirement : The most problematic requirement...

  The Sponsorship Management System (SMS) is an essential tool for each business in the UK that holds a sponsor licence. Through it, sponsors can make certificates of sponsorship available to prospective employees to ensure that they comply with UK Visa and Immigration regulations. This guide will discuss how to use SMS effectively to meet your business needs and the steps and good practices associated w ith Certificate of Sponsorship UK. Understanding the Sponsorship Management System An SMS is a secure online portal of the Home Office that sponsors use to control their duties in the sponsorship process. Through the portal, sponsors issue CoS, report changes, and, most importantly, observe immigration law. Access to the SMS is reserved for a few people in the sponsoring organisation, mainly the Authorising Officer, Key Contact, and Level 1 and Level 2 users. Setting up and Accessing the SMS Before you can assign CoS, your organisation must hold a sponsor licence . You would be re...

A proper job description in the Certificate of Sponsorship is one of the essential requirements if a UK employer wants to hire foreign workers. Therefore, an accurate job description will assist in meeting the requirements of the UKVI and avoid the possibility of suspension of a sponsor licence. In this article, we will focus on the necessity of clear job descriptions in CoS UK and e xplain how to solve it. Importance of Accurate Job Descriptions A Certificate of Sponsorship is required for skilled workers in the UK immigration process. The Certificate contains two types of information: some relating to the job and some to the sponsored worker. The accuracy in the description of the j ob in a CoS UK is essential f or the following reasons: UKVI Requirements: The job description must correlate to the actual duties; otherwise, it will go against the prescribed norms of the UKVI. Th e sponsor licence suspension or revocatio n​ may occur in case of inaccurate or misleading information. ...

Effective sponsor licence management is the most crucial exercise or activity a business in the United Kingdom could carry out with foreign workers involved. For this, the UK Home Office has strict guidelines, whose non-compliance might lead to severe consequences, including suspension. Some of the key strategies on how best to steer clear of these common pitfalls within the sponsor licence management are described herein to guide for seamless and compliant operations. Common Pitfalls in Sponsor Licence Management 1. Poor Record Keeping Among the chief grounds for sponsor licence suspension was due to poor record-keeping. The Home Office requires employers to have an appropriate record of sponsored employees, including all relevant information about each employee: their contact details, job role, and salaries. Per Davidson Morris, that would mean failure to keep the record up to date or store it safely; this might be the grounds for non-compliance. 2. Failure to Notify of Changes The...

This unique self-sponsorship skilled worker visa route to the UK, therefore, affords an opportunity to entrepreneurs and skilled professionals, among others, who can work in the UK without the need for a traditional employer to sponsor them for a visa. On the other hand, the amalgamation of the sponsor license and skilled worker visa routes would allow people to open their own businesses and have those businesses sponsor their own visas. While this might be beneficial and challenging at the same time, there are various factors that would have to be taken into consideration when applying for the self-sponsorship skilled worker visa in the UK . Benefits of Self-Sponsorship Simply speaking, this is the route to setting up a business and obtaining a sponsor licence for that. Once your company obtains a licence to sponsor, you can then sponsor anyone as a skilled worker to work in the company. The following are the benefits of a self-sponsorship skilled worker visa in the UK. Increased Flex...