By Georgina Griggs – Immigration Barrister
Sponsor licence holders have a lot of duties and tasks that they need to adjust to to preserve their licence. It is essential that sponsor licence holders perceive the duties that include holding a licence, and have ample programs in place to guarantee compliance. A failure to comply can have severe penalties for the enterprise and the migrant staff that it employs. If the Home Office finds that the licence holder has failed to comply, it could possibly resolve to suspend, downgrade, or revoke the licence. Please see our earlier publish on the potential implications of non-compliance right here.
This weblog appears on the adjustments to the sponsor duties just lately printed on 09 November 2022.
ISC Exemption
The Immigration Skills Charge (“ISC”) is payable when a sponsor assigns a Certificate of Sponsorship (“CoS”) to a migrant. It applies to the Skilled Worker Route and the Global Business Mobility – Senior or Specialist Worker route. This cost can’t be handed on to the sponsored employee.
The quantity payable is determined by the scale of the organisation sponsoring the employees, and the size of…
