UK Visa Sponsor Register – Licensed Sponsors & Change Monitor

Monitor mode is the main paid feature: schedule the actor daily and get only the UK visa sponsors added, removed or whose visa routes changed since your last run: new employers who can now sponsor, and sponsors that lost their licence. Each change costs $0.0015.

You can also search the Home Office register of licensed sponsors: every UK employer that can sponsor Skilled Worker, Global Business Mobility, Scale-up, Creative, Charity, Religious and other work visas. Filter by company name, town, visa route and rating. The default input returns Skilled Worker sponsors in London (50 results).

This is the employer register only. It is not immigration advice. For your own visa, check GOV.UK or speak to a regulated immigration adviser.

The data comes from the official CSV on GOV.UK, which is updated every working day and published under the Open Government Licence. No API key needed.

Who uses this

• International job seekers and students – find out which employers in your city can sponsor your visa.
• Recruiters and immigration law firms – new sponsors make good leads, and removed or downgraded sponsors are a compliance warning.
• Job boards and HR tech – tag job ads with "visa sponsorship available" and keep that tag current.
• Researchers and journalists – track sponsor numbers by sector and region over time.

Inputs

Input	Example	Notes
Mode	search or changes	changes compares today's register with the copy your last run saved.
Organisation names	NHS, Deloitte	Matches sponsors whose name contains the text. Not case-sensitive.
Towns / cities	London, Leeds	Exact town as written on the register.
Visa routes	Skilled Worker, Scale-up	Sponsor must hold at least one of the routes.
Ratings	A, B, Provisional	B = the sponsor is on a Home Office action plan.
Max results	50

One record is returned for each organisation and town. All of its visa routes are merged into a list.

Example output: search

{
  "organisationName": "Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust",
  "town": "London",
  "county": "",
  "routes": ["Skilled Worker"],
  "typesAndRatings": ["Worker (A rating)"],
  "rating": "A",
  "skilledWorker": true,
  "changeType": null,
  "previousRoutes": null,
  "registerDate": "2026-10-21",
  "sourceUrl": "https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/.../SP_-_Worker_and_Temporary_Worker_Web_Register_-_2026-10-21.csv"
}

Example output: changes (monitor mode)

{"organisationName": "Example Defunct Ltd", "town": "Leeds", "county": "West Yorkshire", "routes": [], "changeType": "removed", "previousRoutes": ["Skilled Worker"], "registerDate": "2026-10-21"}

changeType is added, removed or routes-changed. The first monitor run only saves a baseline and returns nothing. Schedule the actor daily (Apify → Schedules) to receive a daily feed of changes. Your filters apply to the changes as well, so you can, for example, watch only new Skilled Worker sponsors in Manchester.

Pricing

• Search: $1.00 per 1,000 sponsor records ($0.001 each).
• Monitor: $1.50 per 1,000 changes ($0.0015 each). A typical day has tens of changes, so a daily feed for all of the UK costs a few cents. No start fee. Set a spending limit and the run stops cleanly when it is reached.

Good to know

• The register lists organisations, not people. It does not show how many visas a sponsor has issued or whether a particular job is sponsored.
• Names and towns appear exactly as the Home Office publishes them. The same company may appear in several towns.
• If GOV.UK changes the file format, the run fails with a clear message instead of returning bad data.

Licence and attribution

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Home Office, Register of licensed sponsors: workers). This actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Home Office.