Certificate Of Sponsorship Payment Update

Key Points

• The United Kingdom updated sponsorship payment requirements for workers under certain Global Business Mobility routes

Overview

On 1 January 2023, the government of the United Kingdom updated the requirement for the sponsors of workers under the Skilled Worker and Global Business Mobility (GBM) route for senior and specialist workers to pay an Immigration Skills Charge (ISC) when filing for a certificate of sponsorship.To qualify for payment exemption, sponsors and employees must meet the following:

• Have been granted a certificate of sponsorship on or after 1 January 2023;
• Employees must be a national of a European Union (EU) member state or hold a Latvian non-citizen's passport;