The last week of August proved to be very fruitful when the Home Office announced pre-licence priority services for sponsor licence applications.
The new pre-licence priority service enables prospective sponsor licence holders to expedite their applications through an email service. However, this does not guarantee that your sponsor licence application will be approved.
Who can apply for an expedited service for a sponsorship licence?
To become qualified to apply for a sponsor licence, the application should demonstrate to have a certifiable presence and a completely exchanging and trading business firm enlisted in the UK. The business firm should hold the ability to enroll any talented skilled worker from abroad. The Skilled specialist being selected should be extended to genuine employment according to the ‘going rate’ and ought to be offered a minimum threshold salary regardless.
You must also ensure that your business has permission from the local authority to run your class of business. You must also fulfil all sponsorship requirements and duties else you could attract the threat of revoking your sponsor licence by the Home Office.
You must have an HR system in place with key personnels to handle it and timely issue Certificate of Sponsorship(CoS) to the employees.
Additionally, to expedite your sponsorship licence application you probably need to have presented an application for a sponsor licence by finishing the UKVI ‘Online support application registration’. Whenever you have enlisted, you would be actually required to sign into the UKVI ‘Support Application sign in’ page.
You should then finish the online application frame and submit determined records to demonstrate you are qualified and legal. These archives are recorded in Appendix A of the sponsor licence guidance.
The solicitation or request should not have been in progress/or allotted to a caseworker
You should present a completely finished application to the pre-licence priority service.
Procedure for expedite service
Under ordinary circumstances, the application for a sponsor licence must have a minimum of 4 documents which include your bank statements, VAT registration documents, PAYE documents and documents or lease paper for the business.
When you submit these documents and make an online application, you receive a reply email from the Home Office that prompts you to apply for expedited processing through a dedicated email. The email asks you to choose the offer and apply through emailing your documents on this email- PreLicencePriorityService@homeoffice.gov.uk.
You must ensure that your application is sent on a weekday between the hours 9 am and 5 pm. Any application received after this time will not be entertained.
There is a cap of 10 priority requests a day which may change depending on the pandemic situation.
On the off chance that your registration has been fruitful, you will get:
- an email from the administration group to prompt that your solicitation has been acknowledged, alongside additional directions
- a subsequent email containing a Worldpay interface – check your spam on the off chance that it doesn’t show up
You have 72 hours (this incorporates ends of the week) from when you get the subsequent email to pay the fitting charges. On the off chance that Home Office doesn’t accept your installment inside that time, your priority solicitation will terminate and you should apply again.
Processing time and fee charges
The fee charges are £500 per request. Qualified solicitations that have effectively made payment will be considered inside 10 working days.
The 10 working days thought period starts the accompanying working day from when the fee payment is made.
The 10 working days starts from the date that UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) accepts your submission and all necessary documentation, in the event it has not currently been obtained.
You must seek assistance from legal authorities and immigration Solicitors(London) to ensure that your application is timely sent and approval is in your favour. A Y & J Solicitors are Sponsor licence specialists in London for over 10 years.
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