Monday 25 April 2016

Employer Sponsorship Licence – UK


UK immigration has a point based system, under which an Employer Sponsorship License (ESL) is mandatory for a UK employer who is wishing to engage workforce from regions other than the EU. Also if an employer who wishes to extend work permit for his existing workforce should have this license. 

According to the dictates of this system, an employee can apply for an employee sponsorship license ahead of the recruitment of immigrant workforce and also for future immigrant employment opportunities. 

The process of taking on an overseas employee is expedited and made convenient with an already approved license in place.

The UK government has also been experimenting with the Employee Sponsorship License limits, specifically so in 2011. In 2011, the UK government had announced a temporary limit to the license at 10,832 certificates to ESL holders under Tier 2 point.

There was severe concern raised by large corporations who felt that this limitation majorly affects and compromises key talent recruitment. These limitations are applicable to all new applicants, sometimes extension and in –country applications inclusive of intra-company transfers.

Major international talent recruiters at such times need expert legal advice of certified UK immigration lawyers to sail through. The limitations are specific to companies and the allocation may sometimes be zero subject to their previous year recruitments taken into account. Specialist immigration firms provide all assistance in legal paperwork, applications and more for all employer related international recruitment laws. 

Many organisations have raised serious doubts in the particular challenge of hiring experienced personnel specific to technology or such specialist’s role. Some have even called the policy to be damaging and detrimental to the growth of British industry. 

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