In an article for People Management, Head of Corporate and Private Immigration Soma Barzinji writes about the Home Office’s growing focus on sponsor licence compliance, with more UK employers facing licence suspensions and revocations due to failures such as poor record keeping, underpayment of sponsored workers and inadequate right to work checks. Soma highlights why sponsor compliance should be treated as an ongoing governance and risk management responsibility, and what businesses should keep in mind when handling worker visas and sponsorships.
“Recent Home Office enforcement action has highlighted a number of recurring compliance failures, including underpayment of sponsored workers, inadequate record keeping, failures to conduct compliant right to work checks and sponsors allowing workers to remain in roles that no longer meet the immigration rules…Many businesses still view sponsor compliance as a one-off administrative exercise rather than an ongoing legal and operational responsibility. Sponsor duties continue for as long as a licence is held and for as long as sponsored workers remain employed.”
To learn more, you can view Soma’s full article here.