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UK Immigration Guidance
Practical guides for employers and workers, kept up to date with the latest Home Office rules. We regularly update our content to ensure you have access to the most up-to-date information, ensuring you're always in the know.
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Sponsoring Workers
Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS)
What a CoS is, how allocations work, and how to assign one correctly.
Sponsor Licence: Compliance and Duties
Every sponsor's ongoing duties: reporting changes, keeping records, paying correctly and passing compliance checks.
Sponsor Licence: How to Apply
Step-by-step process for obtaining a UK skilled worker sponsor licence.
Sponsor Licence: SMS and Key Personnel
Managing your Sponsorship Management System users and required key personnel roles.
Sponsor Licence: Suspension and Revocation
What triggers enforcement action and how to respond to a licence downgrade.
02
Working in the UK
Care Worker and Health Routes
Health and Care Worker visa rules for NHS, health and adult social care roles.
Graduate and Student Switching
Post-study work options and switching from a student visa in the UK.
Skilled Worker: Apply, Switch and Extend
How to apply, switch, extend or change jobs on a Skilled Worker visa.
Skilled Worker: Eligibility and Salary
Which jobs qualify, the salary you must be paid, and how transitional rules apply.
Skilled Worker: Job Loss and Second Jobs
Your options after redundancy and the rules on supplementary employment.
03
Employer Compliance
Illegal Working and Civil Penalties
Liability, penalty levels, how to challenge a notice, and the sponsor licence consequences.
Right to Work Checks
A complete guide to compliant manual and digital right to work checks for UK employers.
Visa Fees and Sponsorship Costs
Breaking down application fees, the health surcharge, and sponsorship costs.
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Settling in the UK
Dependants and Family
Bringing a partner, children or a relative to the UK, on every family route.
English Language Requirements
The level each visa route requires, how to prove it, and who is exempt.
Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) and Settlement
Qualifying periods and requirements for settling in the UK via work routes.
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