Revised guidance for employers who sponsor migrant workers

The UK Border Agency has published revised guidance for employers who sponsor migrant workers under the points-based system.

The sponsor guidance has been revised for employers who sponsor migrant workers under tiers 2 and 5 of the points-based system. The guidance documents, together with a list of changes from the previous guidance, can be downloaded from the UK Border Agency website.  

Tier 2 is for those skilled workers who have received a job offer from a UK employer and Tier 5 is for temporary workers.  

The revisions for employers include:

• Revised guidance on choosing an immigration adviser (Tier 2).
• Updated guidance on which jobs don’t have to be advertised in job centres (Tier 2).
• Usually, a certificate of sponsorship must be assigned within six months of the date the vacancy is first advertised. The guidance has a revised list of exceptions to this six-month rule (Tier 2).
• Revised guidance on the suspension of licences (Tier 2/5).

Workplace Law is working with immigration specialists, DavidsonMorris Solicitors, to offer expert advice on managing the new immigration regulations that came into force in November 2008.

A FREE online seminar on Monday 12 October at 10am will be available to all Workplace Law Members and is a prelude to a more in-depth Immigration and Asylum Workshop which will be held by Workplace Law Training in London on 22 October and which will address these issues in greater detail.

Register now to join the seminar.