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Sponsor Compliance Visits - What To Expect?
By Wendy Barnes - Legal Associate

The Home Office may undertake a sponsor compliance visit in order to assess an organisation once it has submitted a sponsor licence application. They may also visit once a sponsor licence has been granted in order...

 to ensure that the organisation is maintaining its sponsorship duties.  Any change in circumstances may also warrant a Home Office visit.  This includes, but is not limited to: A change of the company...

Are you Satisfying your Duties as a Tier 2 Sponsor?
By Wendy Barnes - Legal Associate

Sponsors are required to ensure they are complying with immigration law and have the necessary systems in place to retain their Tier 2 Sponsor Licence. As Sponsors are benefiting from migration they are expected...

 to ensure a balanced system. The main purposes of sponsorship duties are to: Ensure compliance with the Immigration Rules Address weakness within processes Capture concerning behaviour from migrants at an...

Your Guide to Satisfying the Resident Labour Market Test
By Wendy Barnes - Legal Associate

In order to successfully fill a position via a Tier 2 (General) Visa, the sponsor must satisfy the Resident Labour Market Test (RLMT) to establish that there are no settled workers suitable for the position. Settled...

 workers by this definition includes: UK nationals EEA nationals exercising EU Treaty Rights in the UK Citizens of British Overseas Territories (See Tier 2 and 5: guidance for sponsors for exclusions)...

Dealing With A Tier 2 and 5 Sponsor Licence Suspension
By Richmond Chambers -

All Tier 2 and Tier 5 Sponsors can expect at least one compliance visit from the Home Office during the lifetime of their Sponsor Licence. The purpose of the compliance visit is to check that a sponsor can meets...

 its sponsor compliance duties. If the Home Office is not satisfied that the sponsor is complying with its duties then it may suspend the Sponsor Licence with a view to permanently revoking it. Before the...

Limit hit by Tier 2 CoS for 4th month in a row
By Richmond Chambers -

UK Tier 2 Visa Restricted Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) are important to businesses who wish to employ the services of non-EU/EEA nationals in the country. But judging by findings from the March Tier 2 visa...

 allocation meeting, they are becoming increasingly difficult to come by. From December 2017 to March 2018, the allocation of UK Tier 2 Visa Restricted CoSs hit its limit in each month – representing a...

A Short Guide to Home Office Compliance visits
By Richmond Chambers -

All Tier 2, 4 and 5 sponsors can expect the Home Office to visit them at some point during the duration of their sponsor licence. This article concentrates on compliance visits for sponsors in Tier 2 and/or Tier...

 5. It is also possible to have a compliance assessment, which takes place before a licence is granted. The compliance assessment takes a different form to a compliance visit. Purpose of the visit The Home...

Tier 2 and 5 Sponsor Licenses: Home Office Visits
By Richmond Chambers -

The Home Office has recently been increasing the number of Sponsor Licence visits they are making. If you have made a Tier 2 Sponsor Licence Application and/or a Tier 5 Sponsor Licence application, or if you already...

 hold a Sponsor Licence, the Home Office may visit your business premises to ensure you can meet, or are meeting, your sponsor duties.How To Prepare Your key personnel (Authorising Officer, Key Contact...

UK Immigration Rules Preventing NHS Employing Foreign Nurses and Compromising Health Care
By Richmond Chambers -

Patient heath care is being, and will continue to be, comprised as a direct result of the tough immigration rules in the United Kingdom, NHS chiefs have warned.Contact Us – Immigration Advice for Health Care Professionals

 Patient heath care is being, and will continue to be, comprised as a direct result of the tough immigration rules in the United Kingdom, NHS chiefs have warned.Contact Us – Immigration Advice for Health Care Professionals

Analysis of proposed changes to Tier 2
By Richmond Chambers -

The Home Secretary has asked the Migration Advisory Committee to look at proposals to cut non-EEA work migration. The proposals reveal a tension between what...

 business wants (the brightest and best staff, no matter their nationality) and what the Government wants (more jobs for British Citizens).Contact Us

The Tier 2 (General) CoS Limit
By Richmond Chambers -

The Tier 2 (General) visa category is for skilled migrants coming to the UK with a job offer. To prove that they have a job offer, migrants submit a document called a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) on which their...

 employer certifies their proposed employment conditions. There is an annual limit of 20,700 CoS in the Tier 2 (General) category, broken down into monthly limits. In February 2015 a very high number of...

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