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The Home Office may revoke an organisation’s sponsor licence, if they failed to meet or breach any sponsor duties and/or pose a threat to immigration control. The Home Office may decide to revoke the organisation’s licence directly and without suspending the licence first; if the sponsor breach is severe, normally indicating a significant or systematic failure and/or constitutes a threat to immigration control.
Revocation of Tier 2 or 5 licence can have devastating consequences for an organisation and should not be taken lightly. The organisation will not be able to sponsor new migrants and will be removed from the public register of sponsors during the period of suspension. The leave of the current migrant workers under sponsorship will be curtailed and be given 60 days to find alternative sponsorship or leave the UK.
The common reasons for revocation include failing to adhere to the Resident Labour Market Test requirements, not undertaking Right to work checks or employing illegal workers, failing to uphold proper HR and Recruitment practices, pose a threat to immigration control by facilitating jobs that are not suitable for sponsorship, submitting false or misleading documents when requested etc.
There is no right of appeal against a decision to revoke a sponsor licence and the organisations will not be allowed to apply for a new sponsor licence again until the end of the appropriate cooling off period from the date the licence is revoked. The organisations however may have an option to challenge the decision by the form of a judicial review. This process looks into the ways the decision was reached by the Home Office and assess whether they have acted unreasonably.
Our Immigration lawyers at City Legal have immense experience in assisting small businesses and multinational companies in sponsor licence matters including new applications, dealing with suspensions and revocations, HR & Compliance audits with action plans and training, sponsoring migrant workers as well as dealing with day to day sponsor licence obligations. City Legal brings substantial experience in advising companies facing sponsor revocation and can advise on the merits and strengths of your case, and advise on the most appropriate course of action.
We can help the organisation by offering the below guidance and assistance:
If the sponsor licence is revoked, the organisation will be given written reasons for the same. The decision to revoke the licence does not carry a right of appeal and the organisation may challenge the decision by the way of a Judicial Review at the high court.
It is imperative that licence holders understand sponsor duties and responsibilities because if compliance is not met, the Home Office can suspend or even revoke your Sponsor Licence.
The Home Office takes the view that as employers benefit directly from sponsorship, they must play their part in ensuring the system is not abused.
From April 2017 employers face the payment of an Immigration Skills Charge (ISC) for sponsoring migrant workers.