Business immigration
Whether you need a sponsor licence to recruit international talent, visas for the people you have already found, or a compliance system that survives a Home Office visit, we act for employers of every size, from single site restaurants to listed companies.
The Home Office can suspend or revoke a sponsor licence for compliance failures, and revocation usually means your sponsored workers' visas are curtailed. Getting the system right from day one is far cheaper than recovering from getting it wrong.
We have obtained licences for first time sponsors, managed complex changes of ownership involving the transfer of entire sponsored workforces, and helped employers recover after a licence lapsed or came under scrutiny.
You will know the cost before we start and who is doing the work while we do it. Most matters are handled end to end by the same senior solicitor.
What we do for employers
We prepare and submit your Skilled Worker sponsor licence application, assemble the supporting evidence, set up your Key Personnel correctly and prepare you for any pre-licence checks. We have particular experience licensing restaurants and hospitality businesses, a sector the Home Office examines closely. SponsorServe, our fixed fee sponsor licence package, launches soon.
Free AI pre-check: test your eligibility at sponsorlicence.online, built by our sister venture Legalaid. Guidance only, not legal advice.
Certificate of Sponsorship assignment, salary and going rate checks, and the visa application itself, whether the worker is applying from overseas or switching in the UK. We check the role against the current Immigration Rules before anything is assigned, because a defective CoS is an expensive mistake.
Support for healthcare employers and professionals. Note that since 22 July 2025 care workers and senior care workers cannot be recruited from outside the UK; nurses, doctors and other eligible healthcare roles remain open, and transitional arrangements exist for workers already sponsored. We can advise on exactly where your recruitment plans stand under the current rules.
Reporting duties, record keeping under Appendix D, SMS management and mock audits to prepare you for a UKVI compliance visit. We train your HR team so that compliance becomes routine rather than a scramble.
Free AI tool: generate a starter compliance action plan at sponsorlicence.online from our sister venture Legalaid. Guidance only, not legal advice.
Audit of your current right to work processes, correction of historic gaps, and training on compliant checks including eVisas and share codes. A correct check gives you a statutory excuse against an illegal working penalty; an incorrect one does not.
Senior or Specialist Worker transfers, Graduate Trainees, UK Expansion Worker licences for businesses setting up their first UK presence, and Scale-Up visas for fast growing companies.
Our outsourced service: we act as your immigration department, handling sponsorship, compliance, reporting and worker applications on an ongoing basis, for a predictable cost that is a fraction of an in-house hire.
Time matters. If your sponsor licence has been suspended, downgraded or revoked, what you do in the first days shapes everything that follows. We have recovered suspended licences, made representations that reversed proposed revocations, and challenged Home Office action through the pre-action protocol and judicial review where necessary. Contact us before responding to the Home Office.
Revocation is not only the loss of a licence. Your sponsored workers' permission is curtailed, usually to 60 days, recruitment stops, and reapplication is barred by a cooling off period. Acting early, on a compliance visit report, a suspension letter or a civil penalty, is far cheaper than acting late. For plain English guidance on what suspension and revocation mean for your business and your sponsored workers, see sponsorlicencesupport.com.
Compliance is not paperwork. It is the difference between keeping your workforce and losing it.
Chris Dias, co-founder
How an engagement works
A senior solicitor assesses your position, your eligibility and your risk areas, and tells you honestly whether and how to proceed.
A written scope and fixed fee for the work, so you can budget with certainty. Current pricing is published on our pricing page.
We gather evidence to Home Office standards, prepare the application and submit it, flagging any weaknesses before they become refusal reasons.
Once the licence or visa is granted, we set you up to stay compliant, and we are on hand when circumstances change.
Where AI helps us prepare work faster, every output passes through Countersigned, our five-layer supervision process ending in an immutable audit record and a named solicitor's signature.
Led by co-founder Chris Dias, with over 23 years in immigration practice. Book online, call +44 (0)20 3576 1275, or email info@lawyery.co.
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