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The UKVI requirments for sponsored employers to understand and follow their sponsorship obligations. These are subject to change without notice, and it is the responsibility of the Sponsor to exercise due diligence. Civil penalties or a lower license rating may be imposed if you fail to uphold your statutory excuse by adhering to fundamental HR practices for license compliance or comprehending your responsibilities. The outcomes of this can create pointless setbacks, additional desk work and cost.
You can avoid the risk of being non-compliant:
As the Home Office Compliance Officer visits your business more frequently, it’s more important than ever to make sure it complies with all immigration laws.
Our HR/Compliance experts put themselves in the shoes of a UKVI compliance officer to assess the paperwork, so to make sure that any non-compliant areas will be identified and worked on accordingly.
Our comprehensive Mock Audits same as the UKVI which includes:
Robust HR systems in place
Interviews with key Managers who are responsible for managing workers’ compliance
monitor your workers’ immigration status
keep copies of relevant documents for each sponsored worker, including evidence you’ve carried out the relevant right to work checks
track and record workers’ attendance
keep worker contact details up to date
report to UKVI if there is a problem, for example if your worker stops coming to work
Benefits of an immigration compliance audit:
The UKVI has the reserved right to carry out arranged or ‘on the spot’ audit of your compliance and sponsorship duties. They will audit your business structure and all the employees’ files and personal files to assess, whether you have undertaken the correct checks in order to meet your duties as a sponsored organisaion. They will also assess whether you have actively undertaken all the reporting duties as a sponsored organisaion through the Sponsor Management System in terms of any changes of circumstances within your organization as sponsor as well as with any of your sponsored migrant employee.
In your organisaion is non-compliant according to the UKVI policies and procedures, the UKVI officer either will advise you for the areas in which your orgnaistion has failed to meet their standards of UKVI policies and procedure as a sponsor. It will depend on the severity of this, the UKVI either will make your the recommendations Your licence may be downgraded, suspended or withdrawn if you do not fulfil these responsibilities.. as a B Rated sponsor, you will not be able to issue new certificates of sponsorship until you’ve made improvements and upgraded back to an A-rating.
If you fail to carry out the requisite checks, and end up hiring illegal migrants, or non-compliant with migrant documents right to work checks, the UK Visas and Immigration (UKV&I) can impose severe sanctions, like: Revoke your sponsor license and a mandatory cooling period of 12 months before you can reapply. A civil penalty of up to £20,000 for each illegal worker.
If you had UKVI audit and have been down-graded to a B-Rating please contact us. Our HR and compliance experts will talk to you thoroughly according to the UKVI findings and will help you to work on robust compliance and reporting system.
As a B-rating organisaion, You need to follow an ‘action plan’ provided by UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) to upgrade your licence. We will help you to work on that action plan and help you get you’re a-Rating back.
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