Sponsor licence compliance – Key risks and recent developments
Location:
Zoom
Date:
12th May, 2026
Time:
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Cost:
£0.00
Zoom
Join Flora Mewies and Imaan Choudry for an expert overview on the latest developments affecting sponsor licence holders and prospective applicants.
This webinar will particularly focus on compliance responsibilities, including maintaining accurate records, meeting reporting obligations, ensuring roles meet eligibility and genuineness criteria, and adhering to broader UK legal and worker protection standards.
There are now over 120,000 UK organisations licensed by the Home Office to sponsor international employees under the Skilled Worker route. UK Visas and Immigration has made its position increasingly clear: holding a sponsor licence is a privilege, not a right. Sponsors are expected to comply with extensive and evolving obligations, and failures are met with significant enforcement action.
Who is this webinar for:
It is especially relevant to companies holding a Skilled Worker visa sponsor licence or employing international colleagues and considering applying for a licence, and their owners and business managers, HR and recruitment teams and professionals working within finance.
Our aim is to help employers of all sizes feel confident about navigating these changes.
We’ll focus on:
- Sponsor licence enforcement and salary compliance, specifically the new salary compliance requirements came into for on 8 April 2026 fundamentally changing how pay is assessed and monitored
- The new requirement to inform sponsored workers of their employment rights
- ‘Eligible roles’ and new terminology in the immigration rules
- Recently introduced expanded right to work checking obligations for sponsors
- Navigating sponsor guidance with confidence in light of the positive obligation introduced to have read and understood relevant guidance
We’ll walk through the key changes, explain how they will impact your business in practice and share practical steps that need to be taken now.
You will be able to ask your own questions in advance via the registration form, or you can use the Q&A feature in Zoom on the day.
We hope you will be able to join us, but if you have any questions in the meantime, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Please note that this event is designed to be informative, not advisory and represents our understanding of English law and practice as at the date indicated. We would always recommend that you should seek specific guidance on any particular legal issue.
