UK Visa Sponsor Register: search licensed sponsors and get change alerts

Search the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors (workers, or the students register) by town, county, route, rating or organisation name, and get one clean row per organisation. Or switch on watch mode and each run returns only the organisations added, removed, re-rated or with changed routes since your previous run.

The data is the official GOV.UK CSV "Register of licensed sponsors: workers" or "...: students" (set register), read fresh on every run. No browser, no proxy, no login.

Made for job seekers and recruiters who want employers that can sponsor a Skilled Worker or Global Business Mobility visa, immigration advisers and relocation firms who track who joins or loses a licence, and sales teams or AI agents that need a structured list of sponsor organisations.

What you get

• Organisation fields: organisationName, townCity, county.
• Licences: workerRating and temporaryWorkerRating (A, B, Provisional and so on) and routes (Skilled Worker, Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker, Creative Worker, Charity Worker, Religious Worker, International Sportsperson and the rest the register lists).
• Watch mode extras: changeType (new, removed, ratingChanged, routesChanged, and statusChanged for students), previousWorkerRating, previousTemporaryWorkerRating, previousRoutes, previousRegisterDate. Use changeTypes to keep only some of them.
• Students register ("register": "students"): sponsorType (Independent school, Higher Education Institution, Private provider and so on), sponsorStatus (Student Sponsor, Probationary Sponsor), subjectToActionPlan, additionalLocations, and routes (Student, Child Student). Filter by sponsorTypes; ratings matches the sponsor status. Watch mode keeps a separate baseline per register, so one store can hold both.
• Provenance: registerDate, source, licence and attribution on every row.

The register has one line per organisation, town, licence and route; this Actor groups them into one row per organisation and town.

Input example

{
  "towns": ["Manchester"],
  "routes": ["Skilled Worker"],
  "ratings": ["A"],
  "maxResults": 100
}

Watch mode (run it on a schedule, for example weekly):

{
  "watchMode": true,
  "storeName": "sponsors-north-west",
  "towns": ["Manchester", "Liverpool"],
  "routes": ["Skilled Worker"]
}

The first watch run saves a free baseline of the whole register in the named store. Later runs compare against it, return the changes that match your filters, then move the baseline forward. If GOV.UK has not published a new file since your last run, the run says so and bills nothing. A run capped by maxResults or the charge limit does not advance the baseline, so no change is lost.

Leave the input empty to run a 5-row example (Skilled Worker sponsors in London).

Output example

{
  "mode": "search",
  "changeType": null,
  "organisationName": "Example Care Services Ltd",
  "townCity": "Manchester",
  "county": null,
  "workerRating": "A",
  "temporaryWorkerRating": null,
  "routes": ["Skilled Worker"],
  "registerDate": "2026-10-30",
  "source": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-of-licensed-sponsors-workers",
  "licence": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Home Office, GOV.UK)",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-02T08:00:00Z"
}

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.0005 per organisation returned in search mode and $0.002 per change in watch mode. Baseline, unchanged and error notice rows are free. Example: 2,000 care providers in a search cost $1.00; a weekly watch of one region that finds 40 changes costs $0.08. A run bills only what it returns, and maxResults and your run's maximum charge both cap it.

Data source, licence and attribution

Source: the Home Office, "Register of licensed sponsors: workers", published on GOV.UK. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. If you republish the data, keep the attribution statement that comes in the attribution field. The Actor is independent and not endorsed by the Home Office or GOV.UK.

Responsible use

• Ratings and licence status are reproduced as published; the Actor adds no judgement about any organisation. The register changes continuously, so check the official GOV.UK register before relying on a sponsor's status for a visa decision. This is not immigration or legal advice.
• The register is a list of organisations. Names that look like an individual (a sole trader such as "Mr A Smith" or "A Smith t/a Shop") are skipped, and no personal data is returned. The check is deliberately cautious, so a few small organisations with a two-word name and no business word may be skipped too. The Actor reports how many lines it skipped in its status message.
• Do not use the data to contact people in ways that break the law where they live; obligations for what you do with it rest with you.

FAQ

How fresh is it? The Actor reads the file GOV.UK currently publishes, which the Home Office updates regularly (the file name carries its date, shown as registerDate).

Does it include company websites or emails? No. Rows are register fields only.

Why was my town not matched? Towns match the register's spelling exactly (case-insensitive). Use query or counties for broader searches.

Can I watch several regions? Yes: use a different storeName per watch.