Skilled Worker Salary Rules: Investing In Your Sponsor

The Skilled Worker route is a sponsored work route. It requires a sponsor approved by the Home Office to offer an eligible role in an eligible code, at an appropriate salary which meets the required threshold. For many applicants and employers, the salary requirement is one of the most technical parts of the route. This blog post will explore how personally investing in your sponsor may affect the minimum salary your sponsor must pay you.

Under the Immigration Rules, money paid by the applicant to the sponsor, or to a related organisation, can be relevant to calculating the required salary and this includes investments. Applicants and sponsors should therefore be careful before assuming that a personal investment into the sponsoring business has no immigration consequences.