Sponsor licences for construction and engineering
Contractors, developers and engineering firms. Site-based work and subcontracting chains make the record-keeping duty harder than it looks.
What UKVI looks hardest at here
The duties are identical in every sector. What a visiting officer pulls out of your files is not — and in construction and engineering these are the things that get examined first.
Whether sponsored workers are genuinely employed by you rather than supplied to a third party
Site addresses and how movement between them is recorded
Qualifications and accreditations for the occupation claimed
Where construction employers get caught
Placing a sponsored worker with a client in a way that looks like labour supply.
No usable attendance record for people who never attend a head office.
Assuming a CSCS card evidences the skill level UKVI is asking about.
None of these are unusual. They are the ordinary operating conditions of the sector colliding with reporting deadlines nobody owns.
The deadlines that apply to you
These are the same for every sponsor. Read them against the traps above — most of those are a missed 10-working-day report wearing a sector-specific disguise.
Reporting
A sponsored worker does not start
They fail to turn up on their first day, or never arrive in the UK at all.
A sponsored worker stops working for you
Resignation, dismissal, redundancy, or the contract ending. Report the date and the reason.
Unauthorised absence of 10 or more days
Ten consecutive working days missed with no permission and no explanation you accept.
A significant change to the job
Salary, duties, hours, occupation code or work location changing enough to matter.
A change to your business
Address, ownership, structure, a merger or takeover, insolvency, or a change of key personnel.
Hiring into construction and engineering?
Tell us the roles and where the business is up to. We will come back with whether you would be granted, what it costs, and the sector-specific things a visiting officer would ask you about.