If your employer sponsors your visa, your permission to work in the UK is directly linked to them. In the event that your employer’s sponsor licence is revoked, you need to be aware of the steps you have to take to protect your immigration position.
Revocation after employment commences
Once your employer’s sponsor licence has been revoked, the organisation will no longer be able to sponsor your visa. Therefore, your employment may need to come to an end.
Usually, the Home Office would notify you that your visa has been curtailed to 60 days from the date of notification. If your current visa is valid for less than 60 days, you will not receive a curtailment letter, and instead your visa will simply expire on the relevant date.
During this period, you will either need to make another visa application in a category for which you qualify, or leave the UK. A list of UK work visas can be found here, but you may wish to consider other options, such as family visas. Should you fail to regularise your immigration status, you will need to leave the UK before the expiration of the 60-day period, or your visa, whichever is earlier.
If the Home Office believe you were complicit in the reasons for the revocation, your visa will be cancelled entirely, which would mean that you would have to leave the UK immediately.
Revocation before employment commences
If the sponsor licence has been revoked prior to your visa application being decided, your application will be refused. If you have been issued a UK work visa tied to your sponsor but you are yet to enter the UK, your visa will be cancelled.
How Gherson can assist
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