{"id":1223,"date":"2022-08-03T09:11:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T08:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westlandmark.com\/en\/?page_id=1223"},"modified":"2026-08-13T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T16:24:00","slug":"sponsor-licences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/westlandmark.com\/en\/business-immigration\/sponsor-licences\/","title":{"rendered":"Sponsor licence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UK provides many opportunities for migration based on employment by a UK based company.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In order to apply for one of the sponsorship based immigration categories, the UK employer needs to receive a Sponsorship licence from the Home Office which will allow the employer to hire workers from overseas. The type of Sponsorship licence depends on a visa category chosen for the worker.<\/p>\n<p>You can explore following immigration categories and read about sponsorship licence for each category:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Skilled Worker visa<\/strong> &#8211; sponsorship based category, suitable for applicants who would like to work for a UK based employer. Level of English requited\u00a0 &#8211; B2. Settlement after 5 years. You can read about Skilled Worker Sponsorship licence <a href=\"https:\/\/westlandmark.com\/en\/business-immigration\/sponsor-licences\/skilled-worker-sponsorship-license\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022<strong> Scale &#8211; up visa<\/strong> &#8211; sponsorship based category, suitable for applicants who would like to work for a UK based employer. Level of English requited\u00a0 &#8211; B2. Settlement after 5 years. Can be unlinked from employer after 6 months and work independently, however there are special reequipments which apply for the employer. You can read about Scale-up Sponsorship licence <a href=\"https:\/\/westlandmark.com\/en\/business-immigration\/sponsor-licences\/scale-up-sponsor-licence\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Global mobility (UK expansion worker)<\/strong> &#8211; sponsorship based category, suitable for applicants who would like to work for a UK based employer who represents an overseas business in the UK.\u00a0 Level of English requited\u00a0 &#8211; NONE. Does not lead to settlement but can be changed to Skilled Worker visa after 2 years. You can read about UK expansion worker Sponsorship licence <a href=\"https:\/\/westlandmark.com\/en\/business-immigration\/sponsor-licences\/uk-expansion-worker-sponsor-licence\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK provides many opportunities for migration based on employment by a UK based company. In order to apply for one of the sponsorship based immigration categories, the UK employer needs to receive a Sponsorship licence from the Home Office which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":605,"parent":1128,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1223","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PbavPq-jJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westlandmark.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westlandmark.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westlandmark.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westlandmark.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westlandmark.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/westlandmark.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186,"href":"https:\/\/westlandmark.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1223\/revisions\/2186"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westlandmark.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westlandmark.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westlandmark.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}