How do I sponsor a migrant?
Key personnel
This page explains what roles you need to allocate to key personnel to apply for a licence under the points-based system.
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The main roles
As a potential sponsor, you must allocate some responsibilities to members of your staff. There are four roles:
- authorising officer;
- level 1 user;
- level 2 user; and
- key contact.
Who can fill the roles?
These roles can all be filled by the same person, or by a combination of different people. You will be able to appoint additional level 1 and/or level 2 users later on if necessary. All of these people must be based in the United Kingdom.
Who has access to the sponsorship management system?
Only the level 1 user and level 2 user will have access to the sponsorship management system.
The authorising officer is responsible for the staff who use the sponsorship management system. For example, the authorising officer is responsible for deciding how many staff will have access to the system and what level of permission they will have. The level 1 user is responsible for setting up accounts for all additional sponsorship management system users.
The authorising officer must decide whether they will need to be the level 1 user or if not, which staff member to appoint to the role.
Checks on criminal records
We make checks on the authorising officer, key contact and level 1 user. These will include checks against our own records and the police national computer, or its equivalent in Northern Ireland. If any of the people have been convicted of a criminal offence, we may refuse your application. If we refuse your application because our records show that the named employees have a criminal conviction, we explain this in the refusal letter, but will not give details of the criminal conviction in that letter.
See How we can refuse a licence for more information.