Check whether a UK company holds a valid sponsor licence before you apply, accept an offer, or pay anyone a penny. We search the Home Office's official Register of Licensed Sponsors and show what the gov.uk spreadsheet can't: whether the company actually uses its licence.
A sponsor licence only means a company can sponsor a UK work visa, not that it ever does. Anyone can copy the gov.uk register; Hunt UK Visa Sponsors goes further. Every profile shows how many Skilled Worker visas the company has actually sponsored, plus its live jobs and hiring record, so you can see who really hires from overseas before you spend weeks on an application.
Visas sponsored over the last three years, so you can spot licence holders that never actually sponsor.
Jobs aggregated from LinkedIn and company career sites, updated daily.
Role-level salary benchmarks plus the employer's gender pay gap, so you can sanity-check an offer and see how fairly it pays.
Minimum wage naming rounds, employment tribunal decisions, and health & safety enforcement.
CQC ratings for care providers — essential context for Health and Care Worker roles.
Companies House size, filings, and balance-sheet financials, matched to each sponsor.
Every profile is free to open. Search a company in the box above, or browse every licensed sponsor to see the full picture before you apply.
The Tier 2 visa became the Skilled Worker visa in December 2020, but the old name stuck. If an employer or job ad still mentions a “Tier 2 licence”, search here anyway: what matters now is whether they hold a current Worker licence covering the Skilled Worker route. UKVI hasn't issued a licence under the Tier 2 name since.
What does the sponsor licence checker actually check? It searches the company name you enter against the Home Office's Register of Licensed Sponsors (the official list of every UK employer allowed to sponsor a work visa), plus the brand names we've mapped to each legal entity, so you can search by the name you actually know.
What is a Tier 2 sponsor licence check? Tier 2 is the old name for what became the Skilled Worker route in December 2020. When people search for a Tier 2 sponsor licence check, they usually want to confirm an employer can sponsor a Skilled Worker visa. This checker covers that: search the company, then look for the Skilled Worker route on its profile.
Why can't I find a company I know sponsors visas? Usually it's a name mismatch. The register lists legal entity names, which often differ from brand names, so try the name on the employment contract, the company's Companies House record, or a distinctive word from it. Some employers also sponsor through a parent or group company rather than the entity you dealt with. And a licence granted in the last day or two may not have reached the register yet.
What does 'removed from the register' mean? The company held a sponsor licence but no longer does. Licences are removed when the Home Office revokes them, when the company surrenders them, or when they lapse. If your application depends on an employer that has been removed, talk to them and to an immigration adviser quickly: sponsored workers normally get a limited window to find a new sponsor after a revocation.
Does a sponsor licence guarantee the company will sponsor me? No. A licence means the company is allowed to sponsor overseas workers, not that it will. That's why each result links to a profile showing the employer's visa grants over the last three years and its live vacancies. A company that sponsored dozens of workers last year is a far stronger bet than one that has never used its licence.
How up to date is this sponsor licence checker? We sync from the official register on gov.uk daily, so the checker tracks Home Office additions and removals within a day of publication. The date of our latest sync is shown above the search box. Job listings and sponsorship statistics also refresh daily.