Why Immigration Compliance Must Remain A Priority For Care Providers

When the Skilled Worker visa route closed to new overseas recruitment of care workers and senior care workers in July 2025, care providers might have expected immigration to become less of a workforce concern.

The reality is very different.

The sector still employs thousands of sponsored workers, while the staffing pressures that drove care homes and domi-ciliary care providers to recruit internationally have not gone away. With the route closed, retaining the international work-force already in place has become even more important.

At the same time, Home Office scrutiny of sponsors has intensified considerably. According to Government figures, 1,948 sponsor licences were revoked between July 2024 and June 2025, more than double the 937 revoked during the previ-ous 12 months. The care sector is under particular scrutiny, with around a third of sponsor licence revocations between the first quarter of 2022 and the first quarter of 2025 attributed to businesses in the “Human