We are proud to share a recent success story from Nara Solicitors. We helped a UK glazing company secure its sponsor licence. With the licence now in place, the business can hire skilled migrant workers for the roles it needs to fill.
For many firms in engineering and construction, finding the right skilled people locally is hard. Skills shortages in the trades are well known, and the local labour market does not always have the workers a growing business needs. A sponsor licence opens up a wider pool. It gives a UK employer permission from the Home Office to sponsor workers from overseas under the Skilled Worker visa route. Without one, hiring a skilled worker from abroad simply is not possible.
Our client came to us wanting to get the application right, so they could start hiring skilled migrant workers as soon as the licence was approved.
Our approach
A sponsor licence application is more involved than many employers expect. The Home Office does not just check a form. It looks closely at the business, its HR systems, its record-keeping, and whether the roles being sponsored are genuine. Weak systems or missing evidence are among the most common reasons applications are refused.
We guided the company through the whole process. We reviewed what UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) expects from a sponsor, checked the company's systems against those duties, prepared the application, and made sure the supporting documents told a clear and consistent story about the business. When the Home Office assesses an applicant, consistency matters. The details on the application, the company's records, and the evidence all need to line up.
We also made sure the company understood what comes after a licence is granted. A sponsor licence comes with ongoing duties too. Once it is approved, the business has to keep meeting them: right-to-work checks, accurate record-keeping, and reporting certain changes to the Home Office within set time limits. Getting these systems right from the start is what keeps a licence safe if the Home Office looks again later.
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The outcome
The licence was granted. Our client now holds a valid sponsor licence and can assign Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) to the skilled migrant workers it wants to employ. In plain terms, the business can now look beyond the local labour market and recruit the skilled people it needs to keep its projects moving.
For any sponsor, the value of getting the application right goes further than the licence itself. A clean, well-evidenced application also builds the compliance habits that protect the licence for years afterwards. That is why the preparation matters as much as the result. Every sponsor licence application is decided on its own facts, and the Home Office assesses each business against its own systems and evidence, so there is no substitute for getting the groundwork right.
How we can help
At Nara Solicitors, we help employers in engineering and construction, and across many other sectors, apply for and manage their sponsor licences. We handle sponsor licence applications, Certificate of Sponsorship applications, day-to-day compliance, and support if a licence is ever suspended or revoked. Whether you are hiring your first skilled migrant worker or building a bigger team, we can help you apply with confidence and set your systems up properly from the start.
If your business is ready to hire skilled migrant workers, we can help you apply for your sponsor licence and get your HR systems right from day one.
Book a consultation with Nara Solicitors today.
