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ARTICLE · 27 JUNE 2025

Losing Your Job As A Sponsored Skilled Worker

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If you are currently on the Skilled Worker route, your permission to be in the UK is dependent on your employment, with the same employer and in the same role.

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Isabella Reynard
Isabella Reynard

1. Introduction to the Skilled Worker Route

If you are currently on the Skilled Worker route, your permission to be in the UK is dependent on your employment, with the same employer and in the same role.

Therefore, if your employment ends this will impact your permission to stay in the UK. The impact on your permission is the same no matter how your employment was terminated.

2. I Am A Skilled Worker, How Long Do I Have to Decide What To Do?

Your employer, as the holder of a sponsor licence, will need to report that they have stopped sponsoring you as a worker to UK Visas and Immigration within 10 working days of termination of employment. This is done using the Sponsor Management System.

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