Home Office\u2019s compliance checks for sponsoring companies are either meant to ensure that the prospective sponsors are qualified to be issued with a license or if they have a licence, that they remain compliant with their duties.<\/p>\n
Pre-licence compliance visit<\/strong><\/p>\n According to the Guidance for sponsors Part 1, L8.15.-8.19., the \u00a0<\/strong>Home office will undertake a visit or an interview either remotely or physically if necessary.<\/p>\n L8.15. We use risk assessments to guide our compliance activity and focus that activity on the areas of highest risk. If we know little about you, are concerned about the evidence you have provided, or if information or evidence otherwise comes to light that causes us concern, we will make further checks. These could include checks with other government departments and\/or a compliance check. <\/em><\/p>\n If you, as a prospective sponsor, were to fail to show your ability to fulfil the sponsorship duties during the checks, your application would likely fall for refusal. The compliance officer will judge and score upon the company on each of the following:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Home Office will grant your license if you meet all the criteria above and if there are no other refusal grounds (set out in Annex L1, L2 and L3).<\/p>\n Post-license checks<\/strong><\/p>\n The Home Office must ensure that sponsors act in accordance with the immigration law, guidance, wider UK law and the wider public good.<\/p>\n C7.3. We will continually monitor sponsors\u2019 compliance and take action against those who:<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n A compliance check can be taken when there is a reasonable suspicion that you have breached the duties. This could be on an announced or an unannounced basis. This will likely involve:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You are obliged to cooperate with the authority and provide any requested information regardless of whether you have received any notice.<\/p>\n During the visit, the compliance officer may:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As a sponsor license holder, you must be prepared and action the following:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Depending on different kinds of issues arise set out in Anne1, 2, 3 of Sponsor guidance part 3<\/em>, you will be notified in a letter of the decision of the audit, which could be:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Your license and ratings will be retained if no issues are found.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Contact Our Immigration Team<\/strong><\/p>\n For expert advice regarding any aspect of the UK visa application, please contact our immigration team on 0203 384 3075<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Home Office\u2019s compliance checks for sponsoring companies are either meant to ensure that the prospective sponsors are qualified to be issued with a license or if they have a licence, that they remain compliant with their duties. Pre-licence compliance visit According to the Guidance for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n
\n Human resources systems<\/td>\n Whether you have HR systems in place that allow you to know when a sponsored worker has not turned up for work or can alert you when their current permission is coming to an end.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Convictions and civil penalties<\/td>\n Whether or not you have an unspent criminal conviction for a relevant offence (as defined in Annex L4) or have been issued with a relevant civil penalty.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Migrant compliance<\/td>\n Whether you are employing any workers, sponsored or not, who are in breach of the conditions of their immigration permission \u2013 for example, a student who is working more hours than they are allowed to.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Employment<\/td>\n Whether you can offer employment which meets the criteria for the relevant immigration route (such as genuine vacancy, salary and skill-level).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \n
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