Corporate Immigration

Sponsor License:

UK employers must have a valid sponsor license from Home Office if they want to recruit skilled workers from non-UK nationals including EU nationals who entered in the UK after 01.01.2021.  To employ skilled workers from non-UK nationals, a Tier 2 sponsor license is  necessary. A Tier 5 license is necessary if the employers wish to recruit non-UK nationals for temporary works including creative and sports, charity, religious and exchange programmes.  Employers need to meet certain eligibility requirements to apply for a sponsor license including registered in the UK, genuineness, appropriate HR system, etc. including submitting supporting evidence. 

If you intend to recruit someone from outside of the UK, you will need a sponsor license. Initially, such license is granted for 4 years, which can be renewed for another 4 years before expiry. Our expert immigration solicitors can assist you for both initial application and renewal of sponsor license application process. Please book an appointment with our expert solicitors for detailed advice. Our team of business immigration solicitors can assist you on the following matters:

  1. Sponsor license guidance, including assisting with applications and renewals 
  2. Certificates of sponsorship applications and assignments
  3. Visa applications under the Point Based System including:
    1. Skilled Worker Visas
    2. Intra-Company transfers visas
    3. Switching visas and change of employment applications
    4. Visa extensions 
  4. Prevention of illegal working and avoiding discrimination, including advice and guidance on write to work checks
  5. Advising and guidance on sponsor duties, reporting requirements and sponsor management compliance
  6. Internal immigration audits and assistance with external audits

If you wish to apply for a sponsor license,  please leave your enquiry here.

Skilled Worker Visa

Once you receive a certificate of sponsorship from your licenced employer, you can apply for entry clearance including your dependants. Our services include processing entry clearance applications, extension of skilled worker visa, switching into skilled worker visa from any other category and applications for Indefinite Leave to Remain. If you wish to apply in this category, ,  please leave your enquiry here.

Health & Care Visa

Following the government decision in August 2020, additional care staff have been added to the UK Shortage Occupation List in response to the pandemic pressures and an investment of £462.5 million was made in Workforce Recruitment and Retention Fund. Due to a shortage of labour, the Home Office are eager and willing to issue visas workers over 18 with experience in a health and care field. Along with the require English Language requirements and finances involved, our solicitors can advise you accordingly depending on your situation. If you wish to apply in this category, ,  please leave your enquiry here.

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Innovator Visa

You can apply for an Innovator visa if you want to set up and run an innovative business in the UK, which is new – you cannot join a business that is already trading; innovative – you must have an original business idea which is different from anything else on the market and viable, with potential for growth. Your business or business idea has been endorsed by an approved endorsing body. When you apply you need to provide an ‘endorsement letter’ to show that an endorsing body has assessed your business  or business idea. After 3 years of residency as innovator you can apply for indefinite leave to remain provided that you can get endorsed from the approved body that you have grown  your business (5-year residency for partner & children). If you wish to apply in this category, ,  please leave your enquiry here.

UK Extension Worker Visa

A UK Expansion Worker visa allows you to come to the UK to set up a branch of an overseas business that has not started trading in the UK yet. You must already work for the overseas business as either a senior manager or specialist employee. To be eligible for a UK Expansion Worker visa you need to have a valid certificate of sponsorship from your employer, have worked for your employer outside the UK, do a job that’s on the list of eligible occupations, be paid the minimum eligible salary required for your job. You must have worked for your employer outside of the UK for at least 12 months unless you’re either earning over £73,900 or a Japanese national doing work for a Japanese company that is expanding to the UK. You must be paid at least £42,400 per year or the ‘going rate’ for your job – whichever is higher. If you wish to apply in this category, ,  please leave your enquiry here.

Global talent Visa

You can apply for a Global Talent visa to work in the UK if you are at least 18 years old and a leader or potential leader either at academia research, arts and culture or at digital technology. You need to have an endorsement to prove that you are a leader or potential leader or you have won an eligible award. You can live and work in the UK under this visa for upto 5 years at a time and able to apply for indefinite leave to remain to settle in the UK. If you wish to apply in this category, ,  please leave your enquiry here.

Startup visa

You can apply for a Start-up visa if you want to set up an innovative business in the UK and it must be different from anything else on the market. Before you apply you must have an endorsement body who will assess your business idea and provide you with an endorsement letter. The endorsement body must be either a UK higher education institution or a business organisation with a history of supporting UK entrepreneurs. You must be able to show that your business idea is a new idea-you cannot join a business that is already trading; innovative- you must have an original business idea which is different from anything else on the market and viable- it has potential for growth. You must also be at least 18 years old, prove that you can read, write and understand English to level B2 on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) scale, be able to prove that you have enough personal savings to support yourself while you are in the UK. You need to have had at least £1,270 in your bank account for 28 consecutive days before you apply, or you are in the UK for less than a year and apply to switch to this visa.  With Start-up visa, you can stay for 2 years. You cannot apply to extend this visa, but if you want to stay longer in the UK, you may be able to switch to innovator visa if you set up a business while on s Start-up visa and -your endorsement body assessed and agreed it, – it is active, trading and sustainable, – you have day to day involvement in it. Your visa may be cut short if your endorsement is withdrawn  by the endorsing body. If you want to stay longer, you must re-apply with a new endorsement before your current visa expires. You can only stay for a total of 2 years  even if you are granted a new visa with a new endorsement. If you wish to apply in this category,  please leave your enquiry here.

Extension of Sole Representative visa

You can apply as a representative of an overseas business if you are an employee of an overseas newspaper, news agency or broadcasting organisation posted on a long-term assignment to the UK. If you wish to apply in this category,  please leave your enquiry here.

UK Expansion Worker Visa (Global Business Mobility)

A UK Expansion Worker visa allows you to come to the UK to set up a branch of an overseas business that has not started trading in the UK yet. You must already work for the overseas business as either a senior manager or specialist employee. If you wish to apply in this category,  please leave your enquiry here.

Secondment Worker Visa(Global Business Mobility)

Apply for this visa if your overseas employer is transferring you to the UK to do an eligible job for a different organisation. Your overseas employer must have a high-value contract with the UK organisation. If you wish to apply in this category,  please leave your enquiry here.

Service Supplier Visa(Global Business Mobility)

You can apply for a Service Supplier visa if you have a contract to provide services for a UK company, either as an employee for an overseas company or as a self-employed professional based overseas. If you wish to apply in this category,  please leave your enquiry here.

Senior Worker Visa(Global Business Mobility):

A Senior or Specialist Worker visa allows you to come to or stay in the UK to do an eligible job at your employer’s UK branch. This visa has replaced the Intra-company Transfer visa, previously the Tier 2 (Intra-company Transfer) Long-term Staff visa. If you wish to apply in this category,  please leave your enquiry here.

Scale-Up Worker Visa

A Scale-up Worker visa allows you to come to the UK to do an eligible job for a fast-growing UK business (sometimes called a ‘scale-up business’). Your UK employer must meet specific eligibility criteria to sponsor scale-up workers. If you wish to apply in this category,  please leave your enquiry here.

High Potential Visa

A High Potential Individual (HPI) visa gives you permission to stay in the UK for at least 2 years. To apply, you must have been awarded a qualification by an eligible university in the last 5 years. If you wish to apply in this category,  please leave your enquiry here.