This Practice Note summarises the eligibility and suitability criteria for organisations seeking to register as sponsor employers under Workers and Temporary Workers routes.

The Worker routes are:

1. •

   Skilled Worker

2. •

   Global Business Mobility (GBM)—Senior or Specialist Worker

3. •

   T2 Minister of Religion, and

4. •

   International Sportsperson

The Temporary Worker routes are:

1. •

   Charity Worker

2. •

   Creative Worker

3. •

   GBM—Graduate Trainee, Service Supplier, Secondment Worker and UK Expansion Worker

4. •

   Scale-up

5. •

   Government Authorised Exchange

6. •

   International Agreement

7. •

   Religious Worker, and

8. •

   Seasonal Worker

This Practice Note mainly focuses on sponsor licence applications for the Skilled Worker, GBM—Senior or Specialist Worker, GBM—Graduate Trainee, GBM—UK Expansion Worker and Scale-up routes.

The eligibility criteria for obtaining a sponsor licence are not located in statute law nor in the Immigration Rules; they are mainly contained within the Workers and Temporary Workers Sponsor Guidance. There is also supplementary guidance contained elsewhere on the UK Visas and Immigration pages of the GOV.UK website.

In R (New London College Ltd) v Secretary