Corporate Immigration Compliance and Audit
Our Immigration team helps businesses navigate the UK immigration aspects of employing overseas workers and provide a range of corporate immigration services including:
- Sponsor licence applications
- Sponsor licence management
- Sponsorship of Skilled or Global Business Mobility workers
- Challenging sponsor licence suspension or revocations
- Challenging illegal working penalties
- Advising on ongoing sponsor duties and compliance
- Undertaking audits of HR systems and processes
- Identifying UK immigration implications in corporate mergers and restructuring
- Strategic advice for employers and workers.
Who can we help?
We have a history of assisting business clients drawn from all sectors from the financial and legal services, entertainment industry, IT and AI leaders, global mobility companies, advertising and marketing organisations, hospitality providers and manufacturers to UK.
We regularly assist companies and employers based overseas as well as the UK – looking to establish, build and expand their services in the UK through requiring overseas workers.
How we can help
Every organisation requiring a Skilled Worker, Global Business Mobility and/or Scale Up sponsor licence effectively signs up to a number of compliance duties and sponsor obligations. These can be checked at any point during the life of a sponsor licence.
The team at Winckworth Sherwood has significant experience working with different types of companies who are seeking to hire overseas talent to work in the UK. In addition to our tailored guidance through the sponsor application process, we are in regular contact with our clients to manage their sponsor licence and employment of overseas workers in an effective and compliant way. We provide mock audit services and checks to ensure HR systems and processes remain in line with sponsor obligations. Breach of sponsor duties can have serious consequences, leading to suspensions or even revocations which may lead to having to terminate the employment of all sponsored workers.
We also provide advice and services to ensure our clients have appropriate procedures in line with prevention of illegal working practices and the correct right to work processes are followed.
We have significant experience in working with different sized organisations on how to avoid or address the different compliance issues that can come up in UK immigration matters.
Please contact Malini Skandachanmugarasan if you have any queries regarding your company’s compliance with ongoing sponsorship duties or concerns regarding right to work matters.