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Sponsor compliance checklist

Answer 15 quick questions to see whether your business would stand up to a Home Office compliance visit.

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Reporting

  1. 1. Do you report changes about sponsored workers on the sponsor management system (SMS) within the deadlines?
  2. 2. Do you report sponsored workers who are absent without permission for the period set out in the guidance?
  3. 3. Do you report changes to your organisation, such as a new address, owner, or merger?

Right to work

  1. 4. Do you complete a right to work check for every employee before they start work?
  2. 5. Do you use the Home Office online checking service (share codes and eVisas) where it applies, and keep the result?
  3. 6. Do you diarise and carry out follow-up checks before a worker's permission expires?

Pay and role

  1. 7. Do you check each pay period that every sponsored worker is paid at least the salary on their Certificate of Sponsorship?
  2. 8. Is each sponsored worker doing the job described on their Certificate of Sponsorship?
  3. 9. Do you pay all sponsorship costs yourself, without recovering them from workers?

Records

  1. 10. Do you hold up-to-date contact details (address and phone) for every sponsored worker?
  2. 11. Do you keep attendance and absence records for every sponsored worker?
  3. 12. Do you keep evidence of how you recruited each sponsored worker?

Your licence

  1. 13. Are your Authorising Officer, Key Contact, and Level 1 User details correct and current on the SMS?
  2. 14. Do you track when sponsored workers' visas expire and plan extensions or settlement in good time?
  3. 15. Have you carried out an internal or external compliance audit in the last 12 months?

General information, not legal advice. Speak to a solicitor about your circumstances before you rely on it.

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