Sponsor Licences for Sole Traders and Partnerships: Does Your Business Structure Matter?
A business does not have to be a limited company to hold a sponsor licence. The Home Office expressly allows a sole trader to apply where…
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Sponsor Licences for Care Providers: Current Rules
Adult social care employers can still hold sponsor licences and sponsor eligible workers. What changed in July 2025 is considerably more specific. From 22 July 2025,…
Sponsor Licences for Charities: Which Route Applies?
A charity can sponsor overseas nationals to work in the UK. The more important question is what kind of work the person will actually do. A…
Sponsored Worker Unpaid Leave, Sickness & Absence
A sponsored worker can take sick leave. They can take statutory family leave. They can be absent on reduced pay in circumstances recognised by the sponsor…
Remote & Hybrid Working for Sponsored Workers
A sponsored worker can work from home. They can also work on a hybrid basis. The sponsorship system does not require every Skilled Worker to sit…
Changing a Sponsored Worker’s Job or Occupation Code
Sponsored workers can be promoted. Their responsibilities can increase. Departments can be reorganised. Job titles can change. None of those things is inherently inconsistent with Skilled…
Salary Changes for Sponsored Workers: What Employers Need to Consider Before Reducing Pay
A sponsored worker’s salary can sometimes be reduced. It should not be reduced simply because the employer is entitled to change the employment contract. For a…
Right to Work Checks for Sponsored Workers: What Employers Need to Get Right
An employer can sponsor a worker’s visa and still fail to carry out a compliant right to work check. The two processes are connected, but they…
Sponsor Licence Record Keeping: What Employers Must Keep
Sponsor record keeping is sometimes reduced to a list of documents. Right to work check. Contract. Payslips. Address. Absence record. Recruitment evidence. Those documents matter. But…
Temporary Worker Sponsor Licence: Which Route Does Your Organisation Need?
A Temporary Worker sponsor licence is not a general permission to bring somebody to the UK for a short period of work. That is the first…
