Protect your sponsor licence. Keep hiring.
Licence approval is the beginning, not the end. Harveys Legal helps employers stay compliant with Home Office sponsor duties — record keeping, reporting, monitoring, and the processes that protect the licence you worked to get.
Regulated by the Immigration Advice Authority · IAA Reg No. F202537009Built for UK employers managing sponsored hiring.
Warning signs your compliance is at risk
Compliance failures are rarely sudden. They build over time when internal processes are unclear, responsibility is unassigned, or record-keeping is inconsistent.
Compliance support that fits how your business operates.
Sponsor compliance is not a one-time task. It is an ongoing operational responsibility that requires clear processes, reliable record-keeping, and someone who knows what the Home Office expects.
Where compliance typically breaks down
How Harveys Legal structures compliance support.
Compliance review
We assess your current processes, record-keeping, and SMS usage against Home Office requirements to identify risk areas.
Process design and gap resolution
We help you build or improve the internal processes, templates, and systems needed to meet your sponsor duties reliably.
Key personnel briefing
We ensure your Authorising Officer, Key Contact, and Level 1 Users understand their responsibilities and how to carry them out.
Ongoing retainer support
Monthly or quarterly support to handle reporting, queries, record reviews, and changes as your sponsored workforce evolves.
Clear, upfront pricing.
Harveys Legal works on fixed-fee and scoped-retainer models. No surprise bills. Home Office fees are always separate and clearly itemised.
Get a quote in consultation →Initial compliance reviews are priced separately. Retainer pricing is agreed based on your sponsored workforce size and scope of support required.
How this typically plays out in practice.
An expanding hospitality group had grown their sponsored workforce quickly across three sites. HR was managed centrally but day-to-day records were kept by site managers in inconsistent formats. The Authorising Officer had not been briefed in over 18 months and SMS entries were behind on several material changes. A renewal was approaching.
Compliance brought current ahead of renewal. The renewal application was approved without conditions or follow-up queries. The group continues on a monthly retainer to maintain audit-ready records as the sponsored workforce grows.
Representative composite example for illustrative purposes only. Client details are anonymised and combined across multiple matters. Outcomes vary based on individual circumstances. Final decisions remain with the Home Office or relevant decision-maker.
Mehmood Rajoka
IAA-regulated UK Immigration Adviser · Firm Reg F202537009Mehmood leads Harveys Legal's business immigration practice. He works directly with UK employers on sponsor licence applications, compliance, and Home Office audit readiness — focused on practical, commercially useful advice rather than legal theatre.
Plain-spoken legal work, with the receipts.
“Harveys took us from no sponsor licence to approved in 11 weeks. The pre-application audit caught two compliance gaps we'd have missed.”
Operations Director, 60-bed care provider, West MidlandsApproved in 11 weeks“Their compliance retainer means we never have to think about HR1 reports or SMS deadlines. It's been running quietly in the background for two years.”
Finance Director, mid-market hospitality group, LondonTwo years incident-free“We had a Home Office compliance visit with five days' notice. Harveys ran a mock audit, fixed three gaps, and the visit went without action.”
Founder, 25-person tech firm, ManchesterVisit closed, no action“Fixed fees were a relief — we'd been quoted hourly rates by City firms that would have run into five figures. Harveys delivered the same outcome for a third of the cost.”
Managing Director, construction SME, BirminghamFixed-fee outcome
Testimonials anonymised at the client's request. Specific outcomes relate to the matters described; every sponsor licence and compliance matter is decided by the Home Office on its own facts.
Questions employers ask us.
Related services & resources
Harveys Legal is regulated by the Immigration Advice Authority.
Firm Reg No. F202537009. Verify on the IAA register before engagement.
- GOV.UK — Sponsor duties and compliance (Part 3) (opens in new tab)— Home Office statutory guidance on sponsor duties, record keeping, and reporting.
This page was written by Mehmood Rajoka, founder of Harveys Legal, and fact-checked against the GOV.UK sources linked on the page. Harveys Legal Limited is regulated by the Immigration Advice Authority, Reg No. F202537009.
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