Vialto Partners

This Q&A considers whether Key Personnel roles can be filled by an employee, a director or a partner within either the main organisation applying for the licence or a linked entity that is being included in the licence application as a branch.

This Q&A looks at if it is possible to obtain an Expansion Worker sponsor licence where there is a UK national who is already in the UK and will be the director of the UK company, and where the other workers who will deal with the expansion in the UK all require sponsorship.

This Q&A looks at when calculating whether salary meets the minimum thresholds under the Skilled Worker route, how should a sponsor approach a role that has an irregular working pattern, eg if the person will work a certain number of hours a week for three weeks, but a different number of hours in the fourth week, can they use the average of working hours for the weekly working hours?

This Q&A looks at where a sponsored worker whose sponsor has lost its licence is intending to TUPE transfer to another company is (a) the sponsored worker permitted to continue working if their leave has not yet been curtailed and (b) do they have to make a new visa application given the licence under which they were sponsored has been revoked?

This Q&A looks at where an employer wishes to move a Skilled Worker into a new role that was previously in the same SOC code as their current role, under the SOC 2010 system prior to 4 April 2024, but the new role is no longer in the same equivalent SOC 2020 code as their current role; will the worker need to make a change of employment application?