Following some turbulent years dealing with the immigration impact of Brexit, COVID-19 and the Ukraine conflict, the Home Office appears to be processing visa applications in line with its own service standards – long may it last!
The Home Office is also picking up the pace on compliance matters – we are seeing increased “activity” on everything from civil penalties to visa curtailments and requests from the Home Office for further evidence across all aspects of sponsorship. The Home Office is putting additional resource into this area, which is likely to mean an increase in Home Office audits, a stricter approach to non-compliance and more licence suspensions or revocations. Having a thorough understanding of your sponsor compliance obligations (as well as systems in place to ensure they can be met) is more important than ever – the revocation of your sponsor licence would usually mean having to end the employment of all your sponsored employees (as well as being unable to sponsor anyone else for at least a further 12-month period).
Join our webinar on 14 September 2023 at 12:30 p.m. when Squire Patton Boggs‘ Partners Annabel Mace and May Cheung will use their wealth of experience to address a range of scenarios, including:
There will also be time for an audience Q&A.
This webinar is aimed at anyone with responsibility for sponsored employees, including HR, global mobility and talent acquisition professionals (particularly from a compliance perspective), and in-house counsel, as well anyone holding authorising officer, key contact or Level 1 user responsibilities for their organisation’s worker sponsor licence.
If you are not able to attend live, there will be a recording of the event following but you will still need to register to receive the recording.
To register CLICK HERE.