Our service
UK Permits & Visas can help you apply for a Sponsorship
Licence to employ overseas workers. We can guide you through the entire
application process to ensure that your application will be successful.
Our services include the following:
Initial discussion on the requirements to be met in order to be successful
in applying for a licence.
How your organisation can both meet and demonstrate the processes required by
your obligations as a sponsor.
We provide guidance on how to request the number of certificates you will
require.
We will prepare the application for your organisation and guide you through
getting the right documents to support the application.
We act as your representatives to the Home Office throughout the application
process up until the decision of your application
We can act as the key contact and user of the SMS system. This ensures the
system is used correctly, certificates are issued appropriately, and you comply
with the UKVI requirements.
Expert consultation and advice on the changing UKVI regulations.
Ongoing support for
Employers How to avoid employing illegal workers
National Shortage Occupation List
Training
Sponsors licence – Trusted worker with visa expiring
The skilled worker route
is a direct replacement of the old Tier 2 general route and is a pathway to
settlement.
There are also 5 Global Business Mobility routes. These are:
Senior or Specialist Worker, Graduate Trainee, UK Expansion Worker, Service
Supplier and Secondment Worker.
The Senior or Specialist Worker route is for overseas
workers who are undertaking temporary work assignments in the UK, where the
worker is a senior manager or specialist employee and is being assigned to a UK
business linked to their employer overseas.
The Graduate Trainee route is for overseas workers who
are undertaking temporary work assignments in the UK, where the worker is on a
graduate training course leading to a senior management or specialist position
and is required to do a work placement in the UK.
The UK Expansion Worker route is for overseas workers
who are undertaking temporary work assignments in the UK, where the worker is a
senior manager or specialist employee and is being assigned to the UK to
undertake work related to a business’s expansion to the UK.
The Service Supplier route is for overseas workers who
are undertaking temporary work assignments in the UK, where the worker is
either a contractual service supplier employed by an overseas service provider
or a self-employed independent professional based overseas, and they need to
undertake an assignment in the UK to provide services covered by one of the
UK’s international trade agreements.
The Secondment Worker route is for overseas workers
who are undertaking temporary work assignments in the UK, where the worker is
being seconded to the UK as part of a high value contract or investment by
their employer overseas.