In this series of video conversations, we team up with specialist immigration barristers from Five Paper Chambers to simplify key immigration issues for UK businesses.
In the fourth of our series, we delve into the practical side of being a sponsor.
In the United Kingdom, the sponsorship system acts as the framework that enables employers and educational institutions to lawfully bring non-UK residents into the country for work and study.
The system is designed to support the UK’s economic and educational sectors, while ensuring that immigration is managed in a way that is beneficial and secure for both the country and the migrants. However, for UK sponsors and visa applicants alike, the sponsorship rules can quickly become challenging to navigate. The sponsored visa routes are rigid, imposing strict eligibility criteria for applicants and extensive compliance obligations on sponsors.
Listen to our conversation to dive deeper into structuring a licence, ensuring all relevant “branches” are covered, keeping key personnel informed, and navigating the CoS renewal and request processes.
