Sponsoring a Skilled Worker


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Practice notes

Sponsoring a Skilled Worker


Published by a UUÂãÁÄÖ±²¥ Immigration expert

Practice notes
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FORTHCOMING DEVELOPMENTS: This topic is one of the areas significantly affected by proposals in the Immigration White Paper ‘Restoring control over the immigration system’, which was published on 12 May 2025. For full details, see Practice Note:Immigration White Paper 2025—summary, tracker and resources

The Skilled Worker route enables UK employers with an appropriate sponsor licence to recruit or continue to employ skilled non-British or Irish citizens in a specific job. It is the most popular route of entry and stay for work purposes.

It is also open to multinational employers to sponsor existing non-British or Irish citizen employees of an overseas-linked entity under Skilled Worker even if they would meet the requirements for the Global Business Mobility (GBM)—Senior or Specialist Worker and/or Graduate Trainee (formerly Intra-Company) routes. In most cases the eligibility requirements are less restrictive, and there is the option of settlement, in the Skilled Worker route.

The Skilled Worker route replaced Tier 2 (General) in the post-Brexit immigration system and, at the time of its introduction on 1 December 2020, was significantly less restrictive

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