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Skip to content Handling Sponsor Licence Refusal can be complex; errors may result in rejection. If UKVI denies your support licence application, it might severely impact your company and hiring. You may also lose your application fee.
You can avoid making mistakes that could get your sponsor licence application refused by talking to our UK immigration solicitors. We can also help you figure out what to do if your application is turned down or denied. You can always get help from us online, over the phone, or in person. For instant help, please call us at 02033844389.
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When you apply for a sponsor licence with UK Immigration and Visas (UKVI), you’ll usually get one of three replies. Your application is either accepted (and you get an A-grade pass), refused, or rejected.
If an application is rejected, the company can reapply right away. When the UKVI rejects an application, they consider it to be invalid, and they generally refund the application fee. Refusing an application, on the other hand, is usually a more complicated situation with more serious effects. The company lost the entry fee and can’t apply again right away.
When there are more serious or basic problems with the application, the sponsor licence is denied. Refusals are worse for the applicant because they usually can’t get their licence application fee back, and the company may have to wait 6 to 12 months before they can make another application.
If your application for a sponsor licence is turned down, the Home Office’s reasons for the refusal will tell you what your choices are. Reasons for UK sponsor license application refusal include:
If you are not a UK government-recognized public body, like a local government or a business listed on the London Stock Exchange Main Market, you will need to show at least four documents from Appendix A to back up your claim.
To show that you can get a sponsor licence, you need to show the papers in Appendix A of the sponsor guidance along with any other documents that UKVI may ask for. These papers are needed by UKVI to make sure that your business is real and can legally do business in the UK. The only exception is for people going through the UK Expansion Worker (GBM) route. If you are an overseas company wanting to grow, you must not already be doing business in the UK, but you must have a “footprint” there.
Some of the evidence listed in Appendix A will need to be a document or group of documents. Other evidence will only need to be checked online, which UKVI can do without you having to give them any paperwork. On the other hand, you might not need to send any paperwork at all for some of the applicants mentioned in Table 1 of Appendix A, like organisations applying through the Scale-up route.
Nevertheless, the majority of applications need a minimum of four documents sourced from Tables 2–4 of Appendix A. These documents should demonstrate, among other things, your legitness and legal operation in the UK, your presence in the UK, and your credible intentions to extend to the UK.
You may also need to give more information. For example, if you want to support skilled workers, you need to give more information about your company along with why you want to come to the UK and what jobs you want to fill.
To send your application online, you must include all pages of the submission sheet that h