Do you have to notify Home Office about change of Employee home address?

Skilled Worker Sponsors do not need to notify the Home Office if a sponsored employee moves house, but there are other compliance obligations you should be aware of.

It is your duty as an employer to keep an up-to-date record of your sponsored employee’s home address and contact details, and also to keep a record of their historical contact details, if these have changed whilst you were employing them. Failure to do this is a breach of your sponsor duties. If the Home Office carry out an inspection visit, they will check to see that you are keeping historical contact records for all of your sponsored employees, if applicable. They will also want to see that you, as the employer, have a robust system in place to make sure that you will know when an employee changes address. You can ask employees to notify you when they move house, but you should also be checking in with them on a regular basis.  

Although you do not have a duty to update the Home Office when a sponsored employee moves house, the individual themselves should advise the Home Office of an address change. They can do this online, or by submitting a paper form.  

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