Sponsor duties and responsibilities

When an organisation obtains a sponsor licence it must comply with a number of duties and responsibilities to the Home Office. When it applies for the licence, it is declaring that it is capable of complying with all of these. These include:

1. •

   monitoring immigration status and preventing illegal employment

2. •

   maintaining sponsored worker contact details

3. •

   other record keeping

4. •

   monitoring and reporting sponsored worker activity

5. •

   ensuring that relevant professional registrations and accreditations have been obtained

6. •

   reporting various changes of circumstances to the sponsor

7. •

   only sponsoring persons for genuine, eligible roles

8. •

   dealing appropriately with any proposed changes to a sponsored worker’s salary or duties and responsibilities from those originally set out on the assigned Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS)

9. •

   complying with the law, and

10. •

    co-operating with the Home Office

The consequences of failing to comply with the duties can be serious, including the licence being downgraded or revoked and the permission of existing sponsored workers being curtailed.

It is open to the Home Office to visit an organisation or carry out a digital compliance check over video-conferencing facilities,