Regulated by the Immigration Advice Authority · Ref No. F201700062
Compliance
A compliance review looks at the sponsorship position as the Home Office would look at it.
The point is to find the gaps while there is still time to deal with them, rather than during a visit.
A review tests your licence against the duties in the sponsor guidance: right to work checks, personnel files, certificates assigned, reports made, contact details, absence records, recruitment records and the accuracy of the licence itself.
The point is not to produce a list of theoretical risks. It is to find the specific records that would fail if the Home Office asked for them tomorrow, and to fix them while there is still time.
Recurring findings include right to work checks completed late or without a valid statutory excuse, missing share codes, personnel files that do not contain the documents listed in Appendix D, unreported changes of address or role, and certificates whose duties no longer match the job being done.
Another frequent issue is knowledge: a Level 1 User who has left, an Authorising Officer who has never read the guidance, and no written internal procedure for what to do when something changes.
We produce a findings report that separates issues by severity, tells you what to correct immediately, what to report, and what to change in the underlying process so the same finding does not return.
Where an organisation wants ongoing assurance rather than a one-off exercise, we can repeat the review periodically and test remediation.
What is actually needed depends on your circumstances. We confirm the list with you before anything is prepared.
We look at the organisation, the roles involved and what has already been done, so advice is based on the actual position rather than assumptions.
We set out what the Home Office will expect to see and where the evidence or the internal position needs work.
We help prepare the application, supporting documents and the internal record keeping that sits behind it.
We advise on requests for further information, compliance activity and any conditions attached to the outcome.
This page is general information about UK immigration and is not advice on your individual circumstances. Requirements, guidance and procedures change. Please obtain advice before relying on anything published here.
We will tell you how UKU can assist, and what the realistic options are.
