Sponsor Licence Check
1 credit / callIs this UK employer licensed to sponsor visas, at what rating, and what changed on the register.
Licensed or not, routes, rating (A, B, Provisional), town against the registered office, former licences and when they went; plus a feed of every change on the register since a date.
The Home Office publishes the register of licensed sponsors (workers) as one list of about 142,000 rows, with no dates and no company numbers: who holds a licence today, on which routes, at what rating. It doesn't say when anyone was added, lost a licence or dropped to a B rating. Since 6 October 2026 we keep the register every day it's republished and record every difference, so this endpoint can say whether an organisation is licensed, on which routes and at what rating, with the register's town checked against the company's registered office, and what has changed for it. The changes feed lists every sponsor added, removed, returned or re-rated since a date, for anyone who needs to know the day after the register does. Organisations only, never people.
what you’d build with it
Recruiters and HR
Before a placement or an offer: is the employer licensed on the Skilled Worker route, and is its rating A?
Immigration advisers
Each morning's removals and down-ratings, by route, to warn the clients it touches.
Due diligence
A supplier, competitor or acquisition target that lost its licence, and when.
example response
{
"query": "00519500",
"company": { "name": "TESCO STORES LIMITED", "number": "00519500", "status": "active" },
"licensed": true,
"summary": "Licensed on 2 routes (Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; Skilled Worker), rating A.",
"licences": [
{ "organisation": "Tesco Stores Limited", "town": "Welwyn Garden City", "county": "Herts", "type": "Worker", "rating": "A", "route": "Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker", "seenSince": "2026-10-06", "townMatchesRegisteredOffice": true },
…Abbreviated. The full example, every endpoint and runnable code are in the implementation guide above; the integration pack downloads beside it. No account needed to read any of it.
Why developers pick it
The history nobody else has
The register has no dates; the only way to know when a sponsor was removed or re-rated is to have kept it every day. We have, since 6 October 2026.
Matched to the company
A company number brings its registered and former names, and the register's town is checked against the registered office.
Visibly current
Every reply carries the date of the register it reads from.
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