UK Visa Sponsor Register: Changes and Company Data

Know the day a UK employer gains, loses or changes its sponsor licence, with the company record attached.

Every sponsor added to, removed from or re-rated on the Home Office register of licensed worker sponsors comes back as one JSON row: what changed, the values before and after, and the company number, status, incorporation date and SIC codes. The same actor checks a list of names against the register.

Run it with the default input: up to 10 recent changes.

Who uses it

• Immigration advisers and law firms catch a client's downgrade to a B rating, or a removal, the day it is published.
• Recruiters and job boards drop employers that can no longer sponsor and pick up new ones within hours.
• Sales and research teams find organisations that have just become sponsors, by route, town or industry.
• Compliance teams check a supplier or partner list against the register in one run.

Input

Field	What it does
mode	changes (default), snapshot (the current register) or verify (check names)
since	Changes since a date, YYYY-MM-DD. Empty means the last 7 days
sinceLastRun	true returns only changes newer than your last run. Best for schedules
changeType	added, removed or changed. Empty means all
route, town	Filter by visa route (e.g. Skilled Worker) or town (e.g. London)
names	For verify: one organisation name per line, up to 100,000
maxItems	Caps the rows, and so the cost

Schedule changes daily with sinceLastRun: true and you get, and pay for, each change once.

Output

Each changes row carries change_type, change_date, name, town, route, type_rating, fields (what changed), before, after, company_number, company_status, incorporation_date, sic_codes, match_confidence and data_as_of.

A real change from the 6 October 2026 register, trimmed:

{
  "change_type": "changed",
  "change_date": "2026-10-06",
  "name": "H&R ENERGY SOLUTIONS LTD",
  "town": "Glasgow",
  "route": "Skilled Worker",
  "fields": ["type_rating"],
  "before": { "type_rating": "Worker (B rating)" },
  "after": { "type_rating": "Worker (A rating)" },
  "company_number": "SC597474",
  "company_status": "Active",
  "sic_codes": ["43290", "43999"],
  "match_confidence": "high",
  "data_as_of": "2026-10-06"
}

verify returns is_licensed_sponsor, the best matching register entry with its routes and ratings, the company record and a match_confidence.

Pricing

Pay per result. See the Pricing tab for current rates; maxItems caps the rows and so the cost. A run that finds nothing charges nothing per item.

FAQ

How fresh is it? The register updates on most working days, and a new file reaches the actor within about 6 hours. Change history runs from 2 October 2026.

Why does a sponsor have no company number? It isn't a company (an NHS trust, school, charity or sole trader), or its register name is too far from its official company name to match safely. Those rows say match_confidence: "none" instead of guessing.

Will a daily schedule charge me twice? Not with sinceLastRun: true. A day with no new register file returns nothing and costs nothing.

Can I monitor my own client list? Run verify once to find each entry, then schedule changes and match on company_number or name.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Every row carries the full source attribution in an attribution field. Runs record anonymous usage counts only, never your inputs or results.