In order to apply for a UK Skilled Worker visa or Intra-Company Transfer visa, you must have a valid Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) from an employer with a sponsor licence. Your prospective employer must request and if granted assign your CoS via their online Sponsor Management System account. Look for a Job in the H1B Visa Sponsors Database The first thing to do is to look for companies that have already sponsored H1B visas in the past few years. You can do this by searching “H1B visa sponsors database” or “companies that sponsor H1B visas.”. Financial sponsorship documents in your UK Visa application is one of the core things to get straight. Before commencing, let’s have a look at a few paragraphs of Appendix V: Immigration rules for visitors: V 4.2 The applicant must satisfy the decision-maker that they are a genuine visitor. This means that the applicant. UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) will review your application form and supporting documents. They may visit your business to.
When writing an invitation for your guest you are free to include in the letter that you will be responsible for the travel costs as well as the accommodation costs of your guest(s). With a sponsorship letter for visa, you will need to show proof that you can actually handle these costs.
A simple invitation letter on the other hand does not need to contain any declaration of support. All you need to include in an invitation letter is that you want your guest to visit you, as well as details about yourself and the guest. The Visa Officer will not appraise your guests application for visa based on your income. The application for visa to enter the UK would be appraised based on the income of your guest.
Should the visa officer believe that you do not have adequate funds to sponsor your guest, the application will be denied or more documents will be requested. In many cases, what we have is a sponsorship/invitation letter for UK Visa.
A sponsorship/invitation letter contains both the invitation and the declaration of sponsorship. The declaration of sponsorship does not have to be full. For full sponsorship it is advisable that you fill out and sign a formal Declaration of sponsorship which can be obtained from the UK visa application website.
This letter is written by a UK citizen to invite his Mum to visit him in Manchester. His mum is retired and living on a modest pension in Kenya. He and his wife will be sponsoring his mother’s entire trip to the UK. This letter will be sent to his mother in Kenya along with COPIES of all the necessary documents. His mum will then attach them to her application to the British Embassy in Kenya.
[adinserter block=”11″]To
The Visa Officer
British Deputy High Commission
Nairobi
Kenya
Standard Visitor Visa application for – Mrs. Grace Kikuyu, Passport No: 1237777
Dear Sir /Madam,
I Andrew Kikuyu am pleased to provide this letter of invitation for my mother Mrs. Grace Kikuyu who resides at 34 Mango Road, Nairobi, Kenya. She intends to visit us for holidays for 6 weeks from October 1st, 2018 until 15th of October, 2018. Mrs. Grace is a retired teacher and widow of my dad Mr. Thomas Kikuyu.
I am the Network Administrator at MicroMana, an IT company based in Manchester, UK. Please find enclosed herewith my payslips and bank statements in which my salary is deposited.
My wife an I own a 4 bedroom bungalow at 234 Swan Street, Manchester, which is of sufficient size to accommodate my mother during her stay in the UK. Enclosed is a copy of our Title deed for the house and copy of our Council tax bill and utility bill.
I will be responsible for my mum’s travel costs, maintenance, accommodation and care and shall ensure that during her stay in the UK, she does not have recourse to any public funds.
Should you require any further information, please contact me on +44-123-12345 or e-mail andrewkikuyu@microblast.com
Sincerely,
Andrew Kikuyu
ENCLOSURES:
• Copy of British Passport
• Copy of 6 month Salary statements
• Copy of 6 month bank statements
• Copy of Title deeds for our house
• Copy of Council tax bill for our house
Although an invitation letter is not required for the application for a Uk Standard Visitor Visa, it is advisable that you get one. It acts as one of the supporting documents for the visa application.
It is important however to note also that there are more important and required documents and information that the guest must provide. Click here to see a list of other required documents.
A sponsorship Letter, however, is required because it is the document that shows how the guest plans to pay for the trip to the UK.
If you are sponsoring your guest financially to the UK, you must provide this document as well as the signed Declaration of Sponsorship form. Otherwise, you could just fill the form and attach it to a regular invitation letter.
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If you are a company based in the UK and want to employ foreign nationals (including EU nationals) after the UK officially leaves the EU, you will have to apply for a Skilled Worker Sponsor License. The UK Skilled Worker Visa has replaced the Tier 2 (General) Work Visa so obtaining a sponsorship license for this new visa route will once again allow you to continue to employ non-UK based citizens to work at your company.
The main requirements of such an application are similar to before and are as follows. You firstly must demonstrate to the UK Home Office that you are a genuine company carrying out lawful business in the UK and use law-abiding Human Resources (HR) procedures. This is an essential requirement of being able to obtain the sponsorship license you need. Moreover, you will have to provide evidence of your past and future plans, and how you intend to include the individuals, you recruit from abroad into your company and emphasize the fact that they will be recruited for genuine vacancies.
Providing such evidence would be in the effort to support your case that your company has a genuine need to sponsor workers and to apply for the license you must start by completing the online application process that outlines the aims of your business and also submits a number of documents to prove that it is a business that carries out real and lawful activities in the UK.
There are several documents that you can submit alongside your application to support your case. These can be bank statements, VAT certificates, evidence that you have employer insurance and evidence that you pay rent or work at the premises your claim your company is registered to.
You can also submit a selection to additional documents and evidence that will provide the home Office information relating to the activities of your organisation. This can be a business plan or any proposals you have that have been finalised or are ongoing that encapsulate the truthful activities of your company, and it’s work in the UK.
After your make, your application, the Home Office department in question – UKVI, may even visit the premises of your business to check that everything is above board and the evidence you provided related to your companies activities are truthful. They will do this to also assess whether your organisation or company will actually offer real vacancies to people from abroad and if your business is capable of accommodating them and employing them under the duties that you claim they will work under.
As part of this procedure, UKVI will also do some checks on your business and review your practices, policies and the Hr procedures that your company has in place to make sure that everything is above board and meets UK legal standards. If they find an issue, they may refuse your application so it is very important that you can demonstrate that the systems you have in place meet the standards that are required.
You should normally receive an answer about whether you are eligible to obtain a Skilled Worker Sponsor License within 3-8 weeks. However, decisions can also take as long as 16 weeks.
On the flip side, any individual you want to employ from outside of the UK will have to apply for the new work visa route that is called the Skilled Worker Visa. Upon doing so, they will have to make up 70 point requirements from the new points-based system the UK put into effect in the lead up to the Brexit. Having a job offer from a company that already has a Skilled Worker Sponsorship License is worth 20 points on your future employees’ application for this visa route and is a mandatory criterion that must be met to avoid their application being refused.
Expert immigration lawyers in London confirm that the process surrounding the checks on behalf of UKVI is very strict and their aim is to scrutinize many aspects of your business before issuing you with a license. Failing to pass these checks can result in your application being refused, so it very important that you review all aspects of your business before starting the application process.
As these applications are online, it is possible for anyone to file them directly on the Home Office website. However, it is always smart to seek the right guidance and legal advice from those who know all the details. To ask any further questions about Brexit, immigration or your business and whether it is fit and ready to receive such a license contact Gulbenkian Andonian Solicitors, a highly qualified team of immigration and business lawyers in London