Worker visas / Displaced worker portal
Hire care workers who are already in the UK
When a sponsor loses its licence, the care workers it sponsored need a new one. The displaced worker portal helps you find them by role, location and availability, and Borderless helps you check each one and sponsor them properly.
Displaced worker portal
Northgate Care Ltd
Care workers near Leeds · available soon
12 matches
Shortlist · 3 of 12
Joseph Adeyemi
Senior care worker · Leeds
Shortlisted
Esther Nwosu
Care worker · Sheffield
Checking
Miguel Santos
Care worker · Wakefield
Contacted
Search report saved
Shows you checked the pool first
Export
Lul S., your immigration adviser, reviews anything that goes to the Home Office
Portal · 09:15
12 care workers match your search
Right to work · Joseph A.
Right to work and current visa checked
Lul S. · Adviser
Joseph A. cleared for a new CoS with you
Iris AI agent
Checks the work
Your adviser
Reviews it
You
Approve it
Care providers using Borderless
What’s covered
Everything the move needs
A displaced care worker joining you needs a new Certificate of Sponsorship and a new visa application, often against the clock. These are the parts we cover.
01
Find care workers near you
Search the portal by job role, location and availability, and see each care worker’s experience on their profile.
02
Eligibility, checked first
Your adviser checks the worker’s documents and current visa, and confirms they can move to your sponsorship before you make an offer.
03
Right to work, recorded
Share codes and status checks are recorded against the worker’s file, with follow-ups booked before their permission ends.
04
CoS and new application
Your adviser prepares the Certificate of Sponsorship and the visa application, and nothing is submitted until you approve.
05
Compliant from day one
Once they start, they’re tracked like every other sponsored care worker, against Appendix D and every reporting deadline.
06
Reports from the portal
The portal can produce a report of your searches, which is useful evidence for your recruitment records.
How a hire moves
Find, check and sponsor a care worker already in the UK
Find care workers near you
Search the portal by role, location and availability. Displaced care workers build their own profiles, so you see their experience up front.
Your adviser checks eligibility
Right to work, current visa and documents are checked, and your adviser confirms the worker can move to you before you make an offer.
Your adviser prepares the CoS and application
An IAA-regulated immigration adviser prepares both, and you approve them before anything is submitted.
They join your compliance record
From their first day, their file and deadlines are tracked alongside every other sponsored care worker.
Find
Check
Apply
Comply
Search the portal
Care workers already in the UK who need a new sponsor
Joseph Adeyemi
Senior care worker · Leeds · now
Shortlisted
Esther Nwosu
Care worker · Sheffield · 2 weeks
Checking
Miguel Santos
Care worker · Wakefield · nights
Contacted
Search report saved
Role, location and availability
Saved
Eligibility, checked first
Before you make an offer
Checking Joseph Adeyemi
Right to work check
Valid
Visa ends in 52 days
Act soon
Care Certificate
Added
2 references
Received
Eligibility confirmed
By Lul S. · can take a CoS with you
Eligible
Certificate and application
Prepared by your adviser, approved by you
CoS · Senior care worker
Occupation code 6136 · Leeds
Drafted
Salary checked
Against the current rules
Meets
New visa application
Prepared by Lul S.
Ready
Ready to assign and submit once you approve.
Approve
On the record from day one
Tracked like every other sponsored care worker
Joseph Adeyemi
Elm Lodge · file complete
Complete
Appendix D records
Right to work, contract, payslips
In place
Right to work follow-up
Booked before his visa ends
Booked
Logged to your audit trail
Every step, with who did it and when
Who the portal is for
Who uses the displaced worker portal
The portal connects care workers who need a new sponsor with the providers who can offer one, and gives regional partnerships a view of both.
Care providers
Search before you recruit
Search for qualified care workers, filter by role, location and availability, and generate reports for your records.
Regional partnerships
See the regional picture
Access regional workforce data, monitor provider compliance, and produce reports for stakeholders.
Displaced care workers
Get seen by local providers
Build a profile, highlight experience and availability, and connect with care providers in your region.
10
CoS
applications submitted in about two hours after Spire Homecare took on a provider whose licence was revoked. All ten were approved within three weeks.
Spire Homecare · Homecare
“It took me maybe two hours to get all ten CoS applications in.”
Questions we’re often asked
Who counts as a displaced care worker?
A care worker already in the UK whose sponsor lost its licence, usually after it was revoked, and who needs a new sponsor to keep working.
How long does a displaced care worker have to find a new sponsor?
When a licence is revoked, the Home Office usually cuts the worker’s permission short to 60 days, unless they have less time left. That’s why eligibility is checked first, so an offer doesn’t stall.
Can they join us now overseas recruitment has closed?
Care workers already in the UK can still change sponsor or extend until 22 July 2028, if they meet the transitional conditions. Your adviser checks each case against the current rules before you make an offer.
Do we still have to check the displaced worker pool first?
Not any more. Between 9 April and 21 July 2025, care providers in England had to try recruiting from the pool before assigning a certificate to an overseas care worker. That requirement ended on 22 July 2025, when overseas recruitment for these roles closed. Hiring through your regional partnership is now optional.
Meet care workers already in the UK
Book a tour of the portal and the platform, from the first search to a compliant file, with time for your questions.