What Employers Should Know About The New Scale-up Visa

The new Scale-up route launches on 22 August 2022. Unusual features of the route include that sponsorship is available only to hyper-growth businesses, and that after the first six months, Scale-up visas cease to be sponsored. The latter aspect means that employers of 'unsponsored' Scale-up visa holders will benefit from understanding the requirements for maintaining status under the route.

An overview of the Scale-up route is included in our earlier article.

Sponsorship under the Scale-up route

According to the ScaleUp Institute's analysis of data compiled by the Office for National Statistics, in 2019 (the most recent year for which data is available), there were 33,445 scale-up businesses in the UK.