Skilled worker sponsor licence renewal 2025

You must apply for skilled worker sponsor licence renewal before it expires. A Worker Sponsor Licence Renewal is required every 4 years to continue to hold the licence.

This is a step-by-step guide to understand the sponsor licence renewal process, cost and requirements. You will receive an email from the Home Office 3 months prior to the expiry of the licence reminding you to renew your skilled worker sponsor licence.

At the stage of skilled worker sponsor licence renewal, the UKVI may visit your organisation to ensure you have a compliance management system. We are specialist lawyers for sponsor licence renewals.

Deluxe Law Chambers specialise in skilled worker sponsor licence renewal application and therefore we provide high quality sponsor licence services to our clients. The quality service provided by our immigration lawyers is self-evident from our 5-star Google Reviews.

Skilled worker sponsor licence renewal (Formerly known as Tier 2 sponsor licence)

You will need to apply online through sponsorship management system to renew your sponsor licence. If you fail to renew your skilled worker sponsor licence, you will lose the licence and you will not be able to sponsor the migrant workers. Your current migrant workers will lose the right to work as well.

At Deluxe Law Chambers, we have extensive knowledge and experience to deal with skilled worker sponsor licence applications.

What are the key points to renew a sponsor licence?

• Sponsorship licence must be renewed every 4 years after approval 
• Sponsors can renew their licences starting 3 months before their expiry date
• Sponsors can check the license expiration date and earliest renewal date in the sponsorship management system “SMS”. account. 
• Sponsors must apply for licence renewal by submitting an application through their SMS account and paying the appropriate fee online. 

You can call us on 01614644140 to discuss your sponsor licence renewal application.

What is the cost to renew a skilled worker sponsor licence?

The fee to renew your skilled worker sponsor licence will depend on whether your organisation is classed as a small or charitable sponsor or a medium or large sponsor.

Under the Home Office guidance, an organisation is classed as a small company if the following apply:

• Annual turnover of no more than £10.2 million
• A balance sheet total of no more than £5.1 million
• No more than 50 employees on average

You can pay additional £500 to fast track your skilled worker sponsor licence renewal.

Process for skilled worker sponsor licence renewal

An authorised level 1 user can apply online to renew skilled worker sponsor licence through sponsorship management system (SMS). You need to ensure that you organisation continues to meet the requirements and sponsorship duties to hold a sponsor licence.

Once you submitted the application and paid the fee, you will receive a submission sheet after the sponsor licence renewal declaration screen. This should be completed, signed and emailed to the UKVI.

What is a compliance visit?

A Home Office compliance officer may visit you as part of the sponsor licence renewal process. The reason of the compliance visit is to ensure that you continue to meet your sponsorship duties and have a compliance management system in your organisation.

What happens if I don’t renew my Sponsor Licence?

If you don’t renew your sponsor licence, it will automatically expire on the expiry date listed and you will no longer be able to act as a sponsor from that date. This also means that the leave of any existing sponsored migrant workers will be curtailed.

In some cases, you may be able to make a renewal application, while in other circumstances you may have to apply for a new licence.