Offer to Exit: the HR Process Audit for Sponsor Licence Holders

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Every HR process has a sponsor licence step

Your sponsor licence doesn't care whether a change starts in HR, payroll or with a line manager. Every offer, probation review, contract change, absence and exit has a sponsor step attached, and most come with a deadline counted in working days. Miss one and the Home Office can downgrade or revoke your licence, and the people you sponsor can lose their permission to work.

This audit follows the employee lifecycle in the order HR runs it, so each step slots into a process document you already own. Tick what's in place, and whatever is left is your to-do list.

What's inside

• Eight stages, offer to exit. Recruit and offer, before day one, probation, pay and payroll, changes to the job, hours and leave, disciplinary, and leaving, each with the sponsor step that sits underneath it.
• Deadlines at a glance. Every reporting clock on one page, from the 10-working-day reports to the 14 days you have to undo a report sent in error.
• The Employment Rights Act overlay. Where the six-month unfair dismissal clock and the expected fire and rehire rules meet your sponsor duties.
• A reference for every step. Each item cites the paragraph of Home Office guidance it comes from, so you can check it or show it to whoever signs off your process.

Who it's for

HR and people teams, HR business partners and anyone who owns the policies and processes that sponsored workers move through. It's written for any employer with a sponsor licence, whatever the sector.

General information, not legal advice. Correct at 13 November 2026.