Sponsor Compliance Services

Increased Home Office compliance visits and financial penalties make it essential for sponsors to ensure their business is compliant. As a market leader in immigration risk mitigation, LDI provides a bespoke, client-focused and responsive approach.

Our compliance services support compliant sponsors by strengthening their practices and providing reassurance to the businesses. For non-compliant sponsors, the service identifies specific risk areas to the business and provides solutions to ensure it has a compliant licence and robust practices through easy to implement strategies.

LDI offers a range of sponsor compliance services, flexibly available individually or as a bundle.

Sponsor Licence Health Check

Our flagship compliance service, providing an essential check on the health of a licence:

a cost-effective service ensuring a sponsor licence is fully up to date
a licence review ensuring company addresses, linked work sites and entities, key personnel and the corporate structure are fully compliant and up to date
mitigates the risk of enforcement action which could result in serious immigration consequences for your business and sponsored migrants
serves as a diagnostic tool enabling our lawyers to identify wider issues indicating a more detailed audit may be necessary
reassures the business that it is compliant ahead of a Home Office compliance visit.

Fixed Fees

We work on a fixed fee basis. Our fee for the Sponsor Licence Health Check is £2,500 plus VAT which includes the submission of two reports to the Home Office, if required. Each additional report is £500 plus VAT.

File Audit

This service comprises a detailed, forensic audit of migrant files, either in person or electronically, including:

verification of right to work checks to ensure compliance
for sponsored migrants, a detailed check of the HR file reporting on missing record keeping documents and ensuring the Certificate of Sponsorship was assigned correctly (including a review of occupational codes).

Fixed Fees

Our fee for the File Audit is:

£100 + VAT per right to work check only
£500 + VAT per file for a full Skilled Worker file assessment including right to work check
We offer reduced costs for more than 20 files.

Expert Training Session

Training session by one of our business immigration experts on sponsor compliance and right to work checks.

Fixed Fees

Our fee for an Expert Training Session is £2,500 plus VAT.

Sponsor Compliance Systems Audit

written advice on sponsor duties and compliance including record keeping, reporting duties and right to work checks
forensic HR systems audit focusing on Home Office compliance areas, providing comprehensive advice on recommendations to improve HR systems to ensure compliance
written audit report summarising recommendations.

Fixed Fees

We work on a fixed fee basis. Our fee for a Sponsor Compliance Systems Audit is £4,000 + VAT which includes the submission of two reports to the Home Office, if required.

Mock Home Office Compliance Visit

Full in-person mock Home Office compliance visit, with a written assessment and action steps.

Fixed Fees

We work on a fixed fee basis. Our fee for a Mock Home Office Compliance Visit starts from £3,000 + VAT, depending on size and location of the business.

Comprehensive Compliance Services Package

For businesses requiring a comprehensive assessment of their systems and immigration compliance, we offer a package with all of the above services, including a review of five employee files. This package includes:

sponsor licence health check
sponsor compliance systems audit
migrant files audit
expert training session
mock Home Office compliance visit.

Fixed Fees

We work on a fixed fee basis. Our fee for our Comprehensive Compliance Services Package is from £10,000 + VAT.

Retainer Service

Our Retainer Service is enables you to approach us with any immigration questions or issues you require assistance with on an ad hoc basis.

Fees

Please contact us for our hourly rates.

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