AORA for Temping Agencies and Consultancies

To do this your business needs a Skilled Worker Sponsor Licence. If your business does not have a sponsor licence, Passportia can assess eligibility for a sponsor licence and the viability of getting Certificates of Sponsorship for the roles you wish to hire for. If positive we can prepare the application at a very competitive fee.

Organisations that hire out people to work in the offices of other organisations range from temping agencies for office cleaners to prestigious management consultancies.

In some cases, an existing sponsor licence can be extended to other legal entities which are subsidiaries or under common ownership. Passportia will be able to review and assess this with you.

Passportia can conduct ongoing compliance. It is important to ensure that the staff working at your clients’ offices are managed in a way that is compliant with the rules. Passportia can help you navigate this.

The guidance for sponsoring workers states that a sponsor may only assign Sponsorship Certificates to workers if the sponsor has “genuine responsibility for deciding all the duties, functions and outcomes or outputs of the job” and is “responsible for agreeing and paying the worker’s salary”. The workers must remain accountable to (and regularly report to) a manager in your organisation. Having the right process and recordkeeping in place needs care and Passportia can do this. 

This is a sensitive area. For example, non-project work such as in care homes is subject to greater scrutiny than domiciliary care. In contrast, a sponsored worker in domiciliary care, performed at the home of the cared-for person, is different because the contract is for a defined duration. The IT sector, where work is often on projects in which the sponsor remains involved, is less likely to cause issues.

Passportia can also manage your Sponsor Management System (SMS) to ensure that it is properly kept up to date and notified of staff changes.

There are many different ‘moving parts’ when considering international recruitment. Passportia will support and work with you to ensure the Sponsorship and Visa application process is compliant and completed as quickly and efficiently as possible. There is a report showing outcomes for a variety of scenarios.

Before a job listing is published, Passportia can assess the eligibility of a proposed job and compute the minimum salary required. Automated justification letters and reports are issued to demonstrate a high level of due diligence which is often overlooked but is essential should a compliance check be conducted. 

For a potential applicant for a particular job, Passportia can assess eligibility for a Skilled Worker Visa or further Leave To Remain. Detailed reports are also issued explaining eligibility, costs and timings for a proposed period of sponsorship.

For the candidate chosen, Passportia can then prepare and submit the application for the Certificate of Sponsorship and visa (entry clearance) or further Leave to Remain, filling in all the Home Office UKVI forms.

Our immigration platform, AORA, collects data and document scans from staff and job applicants using intelligent, smartphone-friendly, white-labelled questionnaires. This approach ensures your chosen applicant has a great initial user experience with the UKVI application process as their first step in securing a new opportunity in the UK. 

Passportia, an OISC-regulated company, uses the AORA Mobility platform to deliver increased time savings and higher levels of data consistency through the application of AI and process automation to Work Visa cases. Using AORA requires less staff time and reduces repetitive manual tasks, in many cases, users can save up to 75% of their time when compared to traditional manual processing.

The savings of using Passportia-AORA over a typical immigration lawyer or mobility consultant are immense. Practitioners perform the tasks manually and it is their time you are paying for.

Your staff can use AORA directly with support from Passportia at a much lower fee, or you can outsource the work to Passportia, at your choice on a case-by-case basis.

Are you currently outsourcing skilled worker visas? Calculate how much you could save by using Passportia:  AORA ROI Calculator

If you don’t already have a sponsor licence, Passportia can make an assessment of eligibility and make the application.

Interested in finding out more? Here’s a video which explains how easily and efficiently a Skilled Worker case is completed when using AORA: