UKVI Mock Audits: Prepare for a Home Office Inspection and Protect Your Sponsor Licence

Could your organisation demonstrate sponsor compliance if UKVI visited tomorrow? This practical webinar shows adult social care providers how compliance visits work, what evidence may be tested and how a two-stage mock audit can expose gaps before the Home Office does.

A sponsor licence depends on more than having policies in place. UKVI may test whether your HR systems work in practice, whether records are complete and consistent, and whether the people responsible for sponsorship can explain how duties are carried out across the organisation.

Join Kashif Majeed, Director at Aston Brooke Solicitors and lead for Sponsorship & Home Office Compliance, for a practical session designed specifically for adult social care providers. Kashif will explain how to prepare for an announced or unannounced Home Office compliance visit, what a compliance officer is likely to examine and how a UKVI-style mock audit can help identify weaknesses before they put the licence at risk.

In this webinar, we will cover:

• The purpose and structure of a UKVI sponsor compliance visit.
• The five core HR compliance areas: immigration status and right-to-work controls; migrant contact details; record-keeping; attendance and worker monitoring; and recruitment practices and professional accreditation.
• The documents and evidence UKVI may request, including passports, right-to-work evidence, Certificates of Sponsorship, job descriptions, contracts, application records, rotas, timesheets and payroll information.
• Why information must reconcile across the Sponsorship Management System, contracts, payroll, rotas and HR files.
• How Authorising Officers, Key Contacts, Level 1 Users, managers and frontline teams can prepare for interview questions.
• Common care-sector weaknesses, including unreported changes, outdated records, role drift, unexplained absence and pay or hours that do not match the CoS.
• How a two-stage mock audit – an HR file review followed by a simulated UKVI interview – can turn findings into a practical action plan.

Who should attend?

Authorising Officers, Key Contacts, Level 1 and Level 2 Users, directors, owners, registered managers, HR and compliance leads, payroll teams and operational managers responsible for sponsored workers or sponsor licence systems.

Why attend?

A compliance visit can test both your records and your people. This webinar will help you understand what good evidence looks like, where gaps commonly arise and how to prepare in a structured way. You will leave with a clearer view of the questions to ask internally and the controls to prioritise before UKVI makes contact.

Do not wait for a visit letter to test your systems. Book your place and give your organisation a practical head start.