Home Office written question – answered at on 9 February 2024.
Kirsten Oswald
Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Women), Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Equalities)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance his Department provides social care providers on using the social staff visa application portal.
Tom Pursglove
Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
Once licensed, sponsors are given access to the sponsorship management system (SMS). This online function allows them to carry out day-to-day activities and report any changes to UKVI, such as a change of organisation address. Sponsors can also use SMS to create and assign Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) to workers they wish to sponsor and report changes of circumstances of their sponsored workers.
SMS has help text embedded throughout to aid navigation of the system, however, this is not sector specific. In addition, UKVI publish sponsor guidance and SMS user guides which are available on gov.uk to assist sponsors in understanding their sponsor duties and navigating SMS; however, this is not sector specific.
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