Warning For Sponsors: Salary Compliance And Reporting

The Home Office is increasingly contacting sponsors querying whether sponsored workers are being paid in line with their Certificate of Sponsorship and National Minimum Wage, as well as whether sponsor reporting duties have been met. In this article we provide an update on recent activity and outline our recommendations for sponsors to proactively review compliance in this area.

HMRC and the Home Office routinely share and match wage data. If you hold a work route sponsor licence and discrepancies are identified, the Home Office may email you to check whether a breach of the sponsor guidance has happened. We are seeing more of this activity in recent months, as part of the Home Office's broader surge in immigration compliance action.