Immigration

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This Overview guides practitioners through employment - related immigration content, with links to analysis, checklists and precedents. Immigration issues are central to staffing and compliance: employers act as gatekeepers under the right to work regime and, for sponsored workers, as regulated sponsors subject to Home Office oversight.

Key frameworks include the Immigration Act 1971, the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006, the Immigration Rules (Points - Based System) and Home Office/UK Visas and Immigration guidance, alongside the Equality Act 2010 and data protection law. Practitioners must navigate right to work checks (manual, online and identity service provider routes), maintain a statutory excuse, diarise follow - up checks and manage queries arising from digital status, the EU Settlement Scheme and document expiry.

Sponsorship under the Skilled Worker and Global Business Mobility routes engages licence applications, key personnel, record - keeping, reporting, genuineness and salary/occupation code requirements. Non - compliance risks civil penalties, potential criminal liability, compliance visits, and sponsor licence suspension or revocation.

Employment law interfaces include fair recruitment, avoiding discrimination in checks, drafting and enforcing mobility and clawback clauses, handling secondments and hybrid working location changes, and managing dismissals or variations...

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