How this works
The Home Office publishes the Register of Licensed Sponsors as a flat spreadsheet, refreshed on working days. It tells you who holds a licence in a published snapshot, without explaining each change.
We take each published version of the register and compare it against the last one. That lets us show three things the raw file can't:
- Entries added: employer, route or location entries first observed in a comparison. This is not a confirmed licence grant date.
- Entries removed: entries absent from a later snapshot. The register does not state the reason; other entries for the employer may remain.
- Rating downgrades: entries moved from an A rating to a B rating, meaning the Home Office has put them on a time-limited action plan to fix compliance failings.
Each sponsor page shows the collected current entries and any dated changes we recorded. A detection date is the date of our comparison, not the date a licence was granted, revoked or expired.
Everything here comes from the public register. It is a convenience view of official data, not legal advice, and not affiliated with the Home Office. Always confirm a sponsor's current status on GOV.UK before relying on it.
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