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UK Sponsor Licence Compliance, Made Clear

Apply for your sponsor licence with structured guidance, then stay on top of your ongoing duties with the compliance platform — built around the Home Office Sponsor Guidance.

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How i-migrator helps sponsors

From sponsor licence to ongoing compliance

Structured information and tools to help you organise your sponsor licence application and run your ongoing compliance workflow once your licence is in place.

Step 1
Understand the requirements

Look up the Home Office's published sponsor licence rules — eligibility criteria, evidence categories, and licence sub-types — alongside your own business information.

Step 2
Organise your application materials

Use structured checklists and a document vault to assemble the supporting information the application form asks for, in one place.

Step 3
Submit and track

Keep documents, key dates, and Home Office correspondence in one place through the application period — including responses to any caseworker queries.

Step 4
Manage ongoing compliance

Track sponsored workers, log reporting events, and keep your sponsor records organised for audits with the compliance dashboard and audit pack generator.

Step 1

Understand the requirements

Look up the Home Office's published sponsor licence rules — eligibility criteria, evidence categories, and licence sub-types — alongside your own business information.

Step 2

Organise your application materials

Use structured checklists and a document vault to assemble the supporting information the application form asks for, in one place.

Step 3

Submit and track

Keep documents, key dates, and Home Office correspondence in one place through the application period — including responses to any caseworker queries.

Step 4

Manage ongoing compliance

Track sponsored workers, log reporting events, and keep your sponsor records organised for audits with the compliance dashboard and audit pack generator.

Key Requirements

What You Need

Essential criteria and evidence for sponsor licence applications

Organisation & vacancy

  • Operating lawfully in the UK with appropriate registrations
  • Genuine role meeting skill and salary thresholds
  • Evidence per Appendix A of the Sponsor Guidance
  • UK presence/premises evidenced

Key personnel & suitability

  • Authorising Officer (overall responsibility)
  • Key Contact (main UKVI contact)
  • Level 1 User (day-to-day SMS management)
  • No relevant unspent criminal convictions or recent UKVI fines

HR & compliance systems

  • Record-keeping for worker documents
  • Monitoring absences and right to work
  • Timely SMS reporting updates
  • Audit-ready processes
Assessment Tool

Check the going rate for your roles

Use our free calculator to look up the published going rate for each SOC code, alongside the general Skilled Worker threshold, before issuing a Certificate of Sponsorship.

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What's Included

  • July 2025 Immigration Rules
  • 412 SOC occupation codes
  • NHS & education pay scales
  • Transitional arrangements
After Your Licence

Managing the licence is the long game.

Once approved, the work shifts to ongoing compliance — records, reporting, audits. The platform is built around it.

Right to Work Tracking

Every check, every method, one audit trail.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Salary check before assigning a CoS.

Audit Readiness

Pre-audit questionnaire and Audit Pack PDF.

Worker Records

Every Appendix D field on every file.
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Frequently asked questions

Standard processing is typically around 8 weeks from the date UKVI receive the application. A priority service is available for an additional fee where places are available on the day of submission.

Yes. There is no minimum employee count, but UKVI need to see evidence the business is operating lawfully in the UK, that the role is genuine, and that you have HR systems capable of meeting sponsor duties. The application fee is lower for small or charitable sponsors than for medium/large sponsors.

Keep records under Appendix D, run Right to Work checks, report worker-level changes within 10 working days and business-level changes within 20 working days, and stay audit-ready for announced or unannounced compliance visits. The full list is in Part 3 of the Sponsor Guidance.

A Worker licence covers long-term employment routes such as Skilled Worker and Global Business Mobility. A Temporary Worker licence covers shorter, route-specific categories such as the Creative Worker and Charity Worker routes. Many sponsors hold both.

I-Migrator is a compliance tool, not a regulated immigration adviser. For advice on your specific case — particularly for complex applications, compliance investigations or pre-revocation responses — speak with Dhruti Thakrar (SRA 158293) at Keystone Law (firm SRA 400999), a separately-regulated solicitor.

Suspension means new sponsorship is paused while UKVI investigates; the licence may be downgraded to a B-rating with an action plan, restored to A-rating, or revoked. After revocation, there is a minimum 12-month cooling-off period before reapplying. Sponsored workers' permission is normally curtailed.

Want to learn more?

Read our sponsor licence guide covering the main Home Office requirements, costs, compliance duties, and what to expect through the application process.

Read the Sponsor Licence Guide

Managing ongoing sponsor compliance?

I-Migrator helps sponsors keep compliance records organised, monitor key tasks, and maintain day-to-day sponsor licence workflows.

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