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eBook: Advising Employers – Sponsor Licence Applications and Duties

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This document is a downloadable ebook based on the Free Movement online course of the same name that was published in July 2025.

The Home Office has long outsourced immigration to employers. If an employer wants to recruit a worker who is not settled in the UK, they require authorisation from the Home Office. This authorisation is known as a ‘sponsor licence’. Employers must apply to the Home Office for a sponsor licence and the Home Office will decide to either approve or refuse the application.

Employers who hold a sponsor licence are known as ‘sponsors’. In return for this privilege to sponsor workers, sponsors make a pledge that they accept all the duties of sponsorship. The Home Office can decide to penalise the sponsor if it fails to comply with their sponsor duties. Sanctions can include downgrading, suspending or revoking the sponsor licence and reporting the sponsor to the police or other authorities.

This ebook relates to employers who obtain a skilled worker sponsor licence in order to sponsor foreign nationals for work visas. It will provide an overview of the sponsor licence application process and explain how to challenge a sponsor licence refusal. It will also look at the key sponsor duties and take you through the sponsor compliance process. It is designed for immigration advisers who are new to this area and would like to get a handle on the basics.

 

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