UK Border Agency releases new Tier 2 Sponsorship criteria

United Kingdom, 2nd November: The UK Border Agency has released the refined UK Tier 2 sponsorship criteria to ensure increased certainty to employers in the UK.

The new criteria will be applicable to requests of the holders of UK Tier 2(General) Employer Sponsorship License for getting additional sponsorship certificates. And it will provide UK employers greater certainty by ensuring them of approval of all requests relating to any Tier 2(General) worker who is already employed by any sponsor or a holder of UK Work Permit.

The amended criteria will facilitate in meeting the current recruitment requirements of sponsors while adhering the interim cap on UK visas introduced this July, the UKBA revealed.

All requests for getting additional sponsorship certificates is considered by a body of UKBA managers on the first of every month. However, due to the new refined criteria, there will be delays in the November panel till 12th November.

The delay will enable the UKBA to get more information prior to the November panel from all sponsors who already have submitted their Certificate of Sponsorship (COS) AR form.

Director General of the BCC (British Chambers of Commerce), David Frost, while responding to the changes made by the UKBA to the UK Work Permit policy, stated that the businesses in the UK have been repeatedly asking the UK government regarding the discrepancies in the interim migration cap.

And, hence, all the employers in the UK will feel elated to hear that the UK ministers are indeed making several changes to facilitate employers.

Mr. Frost maintained that the BCC has always stated that any limits on UK immigration must not, in any way, damage the growth prospects in the nation. He also accepted that the UK government’s policy has restricted the ability of the UK businesses to help in recovery of the UK economy.

He stressed on the need for collaborative efforts between the UK employers and the UK government to train the workforce of the nation.

Mr. Frost said that there is a great need for making the UK a top destination for international investments and top foreign talent. And for this to achieve, the UK needs more sensible UK immigration arrangements in the times to come.