Keencrest guides

UK towns with licensed visa sponsors

Free town pages built from the two Home Office registers: organisations licensed to sponsor workers (register dated 2026-11-05) and organisations licensed to sponsor students (register dated 2026-11-05). Updated weekly. Counts exclude sole traders.

Licensed visa sponsors by town (top 60)

Universities and colleges licensed to sponsor students (5+ in the town)

By route (the register's own Route column)

All routes: Skilled Worker, Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker, Tier 2 Ministers of Religion, Creative Worker, International Sportsperson, Charity Worker, Religious Worker, Global Business Mobility: Graduate Trainee, Global Business Mobility: UK Expansion Worker, Government Authorised Exchange, Scale-up, International Agreement

By sector (guessed from organisation names)

Get new additions and removals each week. The Data Gleaner Actor UK Visa Sponsor Register has a watch mode: it saves a baseline of the whole workers register and then returns only the organisations that are new, removed or changed, filtered to any town or any town you choose.

Source: Home Office, Register of licensed sponsors: workers, register dated 2026-11-05. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Home Office, GOV.UK); licence terms. Organisations only: names that look like individuals (sole traders) are left out, so a town count can be a little lower than the register's own line count. Being on the register means the Home Office has licensed the organisation to sponsor; it does not mean it is hiring, will sponsor you, or is in good standing today. Check the current register and the organisation directly. Compiled by Keencrest's automated pipeline (owner-operated); this is not legal or immigration advice.

Source: Home Office, Register of licensed sponsors: students, register dated 2026-11-05. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Home Office, GOV.UK); licence terms. Organisations only: names that look like individuals (sole traders) are left out, so a town count can be a little lower than the register's own line count. Being on the register means the Home Office has licensed the organisation to sponsor; it does not mean it is hiring, will sponsor you, or is in good standing today. Check the current register and the organisation directly. Compiled by Keencrest's automated pipeline (owner-operated); this is not legal or immigration advice.