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What action should a sponsor take if it only listed its Head Office on the sponsor licence application, but then subsequently sponsors a migrant to work at another work location (‘branch’) not included on the sponsor licence?

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Published on: 17 March 2022
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As noted in the Practice Note: Applying for a sponsor licence under Workers and Temporary Workers: eligibility and suitability, different office locations from where sponsored migrants will work are termed ‘branches’ (as are subsidiaries). The prospective sponsor should include details of all branches from which sponsored migrants would work with its initial application. It should also update the Home Office of any new branches which affect the licence within working 20 days (per C2.3 from Workers and Temporary Workers Sponsor Guidance part 3: sponsor duties and compliance, see Practice Note: Workers and Temporary Workers sponsor duties: sponsor changes of circumstances). It is therefore up to the sponsor to update the Home Office of any new acquisitions affecting the sponsor licence within 20 working days and to keep a record of this themselves so they avoid hiring migrants for branches or subsidiaries not currently on the sponsor licence. 

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