Sponsorship duties
This section explains your sponsorship duties under the points-based system, including your duties under different tiers, and your duties of recordkeeping, reporting and compliance.
Full details of all requirements are in Section C - Duties of a sponsor - of the sponsor licensing guidance.
As a sponsor, you must fulfil certain duties to make sure immigration controls stay effective. The objectives of these duties are to:
- prevent abuse of assessment procedures;
- capture early any patterns of migrant behaviour which cause concern;
- address possible weaknesses in your processes which cause those patterns; and
- monitor compliance with immigration rules.
The sponsorship duties are:
- record keeping;
- reporting;
- compliance;
- co-operating with us;
- tier specific duties.
If you fail to comply with any of you sponsorship duties, you may be down-graded to a B rating or have your licence withdrawn.
If you have any queries about your sponsorship duties, you should raise them with our account managers who provide advice and act as a general point of contact.
You can use the employer checking service which is a developing service that offers employers with the opportunity to check the status of individuals to work in the United Kingdom.
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Terms explained
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Downgraded
This applies to the rating we award when an organisation joins the register of sponsors under the points-based system. It is the term we use to describe a rating that has been changed from an A rating to a B rating.
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Immigration controls
This term normally applies to a person who is in the United Kingdom under a category of the immigration rules that imposes restrictions on them, for example how long they can stay in the country and whether or not they can work.