Changes To Sponsor Guidance

Sponsorship guidance was updated in April 2023. Many of the changes implement new Immigration Rules introduced the same month. Other changes to guidance go beyond the content of the new rules.

Immigration and Global Mobility Partner Samar Shams sets out the main changes.

Reporting home working

The Home Office has clarified reporting requirements relating to working remotely from home. Sponsors must report within 10 days if a sponsored worker's normal work location, as recorded on their Certificate of Sponsorship, changes. Sponsors have always had to report where a worker is working at a different location of the sponsors, or a different client site. The new guidance states that sponsors must also report where the worker is, or will be, working remotely from home on a permanent or full-time basis or has moved to a hybrid working pattern, e.g. where the worker will work remotely on a regular and planned basis from their home.