Sponsor guidance appendix D: keeping records for sponsorship
Guide to the sponsorship documents that businesses and educational institutions must keep.
Documents
Update history
2025-11-11 00:01
The following changes have been made: clarification that when conducting an online right to work check, sponsors must use the ‘check a job applicant’s right to work’ service; updated to reflect the continuing roll-out of eVisas and phasing out of vignettes; further clarification of how to check a worker’s date of entry where the worker doesn’t have an entry stamp in their passport; minor drafting amendment to reflect the closure of the Sponsor UK service; other minor housekeeping changes.
2025-07-22 00:01
This guidance replaces version 05/25 (published on 29 May 2025). Details of the changes can be found within the document.
2025-05-29 09:00
The guidance has been renamed and now covers only the Worker and Temporary Worker routes. Guidance on record-keeping duties for Student sponsors is now contained in the Student sponsor guidance. A full list of changes is in the ‘changes to this guidance’ section.
2025-04-09 00:01
This guidance has been updated to reflect changes to the Immigration Rules coming into effect on 9 April 2025.
2024-10-24 09:00
Changes to the guidance to reflect the initial phase of the new sponsorship service for selected Government Authorised Exchange sponsors, and to make some other minor amendments and clarifications.
2024-05-16 09:00
Added Scale-up to the list of Temporary Worker routes and updated requirements for Creative Workers.
2022-04-12 15:53
Updated to reflect the introduction of the new Global Business Mobility routes, and other changes as detailed within.