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Employers with a Tier 2 Sponsorship licence need to also have a Tier 2 certificate of sponsorship for each overseas employee that they wish to employ. We are covering below details of the monthly quota for restricted COSs for applicants based abroad who will be earning less than £155,300 a year. Many people who are currently in the UK on a visa such as say a Tier 2 visa working for another employer can switch to a new Tier 2 visa without worrying about the quota on an unrestricted COS. Depending on the Tier 2 COS allocation and the points scoring it will not always be possible to obtain a certificate of sponsorship to employ overseas nationals on Tier 2 visas.
Following August’s Tier 2 visa allocation meeting, the number of Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) available for September was 2743, according to UK Visas and Immigration data. The department published its August report citing that its figures were correct as of 17 August, 2016.
An employer with a Tier 2 Sponsorship Licence needs to apply for Certificates of Sponsorship for immigrants they wish to employ. Under the current UK immigration system, unused Tier 2 restricted CoS to employ people who are currently based outside the UK can be reclaimed after three months. This increases the availability of restricted CoS used.
The August Tier 2 Certificate of Sponsorship allocation meeting took place on 11 August. All valid applications lodged by 5 August were successful, provided they scored 21 points or more.
The breakdown of Tier 2 CoS for the month of August looks like this:
Number of Tier 2 Certificates of Sponsorship from annual limit set aside for allocation meeting in August*. | 2,000 |
Balance of Certificates of Sponsorship carried over from previous month (July). | 463 |
Number of certificates returned during previous month (July). | 14 |
Number of certificates reclaimed as not used within three months. | 252 |
Number of certificates granted by exceptional consideration outside of monthly allocation during previous month (July). | 17 |
Total number of certificates assigned to Croatians in previous month (July). | 17 |
Total number of Certificates of Sponsorship available for allocation in August. | 2,695 |
Minimum point score for successful applications in August. | 21 |
Total number of Certificates of Sponsorship granted in August. | 1,952 |
Tier 2 (General – New hires under £155,300). | 1,937 |
Tier 2 (General – Tier 4 dependant switching to Tier 2). | 15 |
Balance of certificates of sponsorship carried over to August 2016. | 463 |
Number of Certificates of Sponsorship available for allocation in September 2016. | 2743 |
The next UK Visas and Immigration allocation meeting took place on 12 September, 2016 and will indicate the number of Tier 2 CoS that will be available for the month of October.
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