Borderless Blog

Licence applications, SMS requests, compliance checks and visa cases each set a deadline for documents. Where requests come from and how to answer them.

You can surrender a sponsor licence only once no sponsored workers remain. The conditions, the merger clock, and the order to do it in.

Your Skilled Worker sponsor licence is a Worker licence, so Scale-up and most GBM routes aren't on it. What it covers and what adding routes costs.

GOV.UK updated its English language levels on 7 August 2026. What B2, the B1 carry-over and the degree taught in English route mean for sponsors.

From 8 October 2026, a Skilled Worker with a positive Conclusive Grounds decision can work for any employer. What SW 18.3 says, what it doesn't, and what sponsors should do.

Right to work checks reach worker's contracts, sub-contractors and matching services from 1 October 2026. Sponsors already owed a separate duty. What to do.

The sponsor guidance is three parts, appendices, route guides and a glossary, on different version dates. Which part governs what, and how to stay current.

The Home Office never sends a link to log into SMS. Three checks that tell a genuine sponsor licence email from a phishing attempt.

Home Office guidance 08/26 abolishes Level 2 Users from 9 September 2026, makes MFA mandatory, and lets a dormant SMS account cost you your sponsor licence.