# UK Visa Sponsor Register API - Skilled Worker Sponsors (`martin10291/uk-visa-sponsors-register`) Actor

Returns every UK company licensed to sponsor work visas from the official Home Office register: organisation, town, county, rating and visa route (Skilled Worker and more). Filter by town, route or name, or get only new sponsors daily.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/martin10291/uk-visa-sponsors-register.md
- **Developed by:** [Martin Petrov](https://apify.com/martin10291) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Lead generation, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## UK Visa Sponsor Register API - Skilled Worker Sponsors

Returns **every company licensed to sponsor UK work visas** from the official **Home Office Register of licensed sponsors (workers)**, which GOV.UK republishes every working day: **organisation name, town/city, county, rating (A / B / Provisional) and visa route** (Skilled Worker, Global Business Mobility, Scale-up, Creative Worker, Seasonal Worker and more).

Filter by **town, county, visa route, rating or company name**, export to Excel / CSV / Google Sheets, or schedule it with **Only new sponsors** to get the companies that were licensed since your last run.

### Who uses it

- **Job seekers who need visa sponsorship:** a ready list of employers in your city that can legally sponsor you.
- **Recruiters and staffing agencies:** new sponsors are companies actively hiring from abroad - perfect leads.
- **Immigration lawyers and relocation services:** monitor newly licensed and downgraded (B-rated) sponsors.
- **Researchers and journalists:** sponsor counts by city, county, route and sector.

### Why this actor

- **Official source, always current:** downloads the latest register published on GOV.UK on every run.
- **Clean, filterable rows** with a parsed `rating` and `licenceType` field and a Companies House search link.
- **Only-new mode** for daily monitoring - you pay only for new sponsors.
- **Fast and cheap:** the whole register (100,000+ licences) is processed in seconds. **$1.00 per 1000 results.**

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `towns` | array | Exact town/city, e.g. `London`, `Manchester`. |
| `counties` | array | Exact county, e.g. `Greater London`. |
| `routes` | array | Visa route contains, e.g. `Skilled Worker`. |
| `ratings` | array | e.g. `A rating`, `B rating`, `Provisional`. |
| `companyNames` | array | Name contains, e.g. `software`, `NHS`. |
| `onlyNew` | boolean | Only sponsors not returned by earlier runs with the same filters. |
| `maxItems` | integer | Stop after this many results. |

```json
{ "towns": ["London"], "routes": ["Skilled Worker"], "ratings": ["A rating"], "maxItems": 500 }
```

### Output

```json
{
  "organisationName": "Example Software Ltd",
  "townCity": "London",
  "county": "Greater London",
  "typeAndRating": "Worker (A rating)",
  "rating": "A",
  "licenceType": "Worker",
  "route": "Skilled Worker",
  "registerDate": "2026-10-28",
  "companiesHouseSearchUrl": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/search?q=Example+Software+Ltd",
  "source": "https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/.../Worker_and_Temporary_Worker.csv"
}
```

### Get new sponsors every day

Turn on `onlyNew` and create a **Schedule** in Apify (for example every morning). Each run returns only sponsors that were not in earlier runs with the same filters, so you never pay twice for the same company.

### Pricing

**$1.00 per 1000 results**, no start fee. Use `maxItems` and filters to control cost.

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### Legal

Data comes from the UK Home Office register published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0. It lists organisations, not individuals.

# Actor input Schema

## `companyNames` (type: `array`):

Keep sponsors whose name contains any of these words (e.g. 'bank', 'NHS', 'software'). Empty = all.

## `towns` (type: `array`):

Exact town or city as in the register, e.g. London, Manchester, Birmingham.

## `counties` (type: `array`):

Exact county, e.g. Greater London, West Midlands.

## `routes` (type: `array`):

Keep only these routes (contains match), e.g. Skilled Worker, Global Business Mobility, Scale-up, Creative Worker, Seasonal Worker.

## `ratings` (type: `array`):

e.g. A rating, B rating, Provisional. Empty = all.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Return only sponsors that were not returned by earlier runs with the same filters. Schedule it daily to get newly licensed sponsors.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many sponsors (caps the cost of a run).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "companyNames": [],
  "towns": [
    "London"
  ],
  "routes": [
    "Skilled Worker"
  ],
  "onlyNew": false,
  "maxItems": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Items extracted by the Actor.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "companyNames": [],
    "towns": [
        "London"
    ],
    "routes": [
        "Skilled Worker"
    ],
    "maxItems": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("martin10291/uk-visa-sponsors-register").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "companyNames": [],
    "towns": ["London"],
    "routes": ["Skilled Worker"],
    "maxItems": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("martin10291/uk-visa-sponsors-register").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "companyNames": [],
  "towns": [
    "London"
  ],
  "routes": [
    "Skilled Worker"
  ],
  "maxItems": 50
}' |
apify call martin10291/uk-visa-sponsors-register --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,martin10291/uk-visa-sponsors-register"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/x8u77Pz2oMoKQTIfx/builds/pXcURE0YYgIfVfMYb/openapi.json