Check if a company is licensed to sponsor UK work visas, and see its visa routes and rating. Free, no sign-up – checked against the official register every hour.
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Use the name from the job advert or offer letter. Part of the name is enough, and results appear as you type.
A result means the company is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors. Check the town matches, then look at the visa routes and the rating.
Tap the company to see every route and rating it holds. For important decisions, confirm on the official register on GOV.UK.
Every result comes from the register of licensed sponsors that the Home Office publishes on GOV.UK. A listed company is allowed to sponsor workers on the visa routes shown, such as Skilled Worker or Global Business Mobility.
A few sponsors show a provisional rating. These are new UK Expansion Worker licences, which can assign one certificate, to the person setting up the UK branch.
Before you rule the employer out, try these:
If it still isn’t there, the company can’t sponsor a work visa right now.
Sponsorly searches the official register of licensed sponsors that the Home Office publishes on GOV.UK. We are an independent site, not part of the Home Office or GOV.UK; we make the same data faster to search.
The Home Office publishes a new register on working days. Sponsorly checks GOV.UK for a new version every hour, and the line under the search box shows the register date and our last check.
Not necessarily. A licence means the company is allowed to sponsor workers on the routes shown. Whether it sponsors a particular job depends on the role, the salary and the employer, so ask them directly.
The Home Office has downgraded the licence because the company did not meet its sponsor duties. It cannot assign new Certificates of Sponsorship until it returns to an A rating, but it can still sponsor workers it already employs who are extending their visa.
Yes. There is no sign-up and no limit on searches.
Sources: Register of licensed sponsors: workers, UK visa sponsorship for employers: your licence rating and Workers and Temporary Workers: sponsor duties and compliance (GOV.UK). Sponsorly is independent and not part of the Home Office.
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