Case Study: Global Business Mobility (UK Expansion Worker) route

Our client, an Indian digital technology company wished to establish an entity in the UK. We advised that they could do so using the Global Business Mobility (UK Expansion Worker) route. This was a relatively new route, introduced on 11 April 2022 and only a few such applications had been granted at the time (May 2022).

It is an unusual route in that the migrant worker is their own Authorising Officer on the Sponsor Licence. A provisional Sponsor Licence is granted and, upon the migrant worker’s arrive into the UK, it is uprated to a full “A” Licence.

We worked with the client to apply for the provisional Sponsor Licence and a Certificate of Sponsorship for the Technical Director. As the application not only has to justify the requirement for a worker to come to the UK but also satisfy the Home Office that there is a genuine business to be established, it is a very involved process.

The application was successful and the Director subsequently entered the UK on his UK Expansion Worker visa.

HR Solutions can advise you on a number of Immigration routes including Skilled Worker and Global Business Mobility. We can also advise and assist on family visas (spouse / partner / child / adult dependant) as well as Indefinite Leave to Remain (settlement in the UK), Ancestry visas, and British Citizenship.