Preparing for a UKVI Compliance Check Workshop
Are you ready for a UKVI compliance check?
Time: 0930 - 1300
Cost: £275 + VAT per attendee
All dates: Register here
- Tuesday 18th March 2025
- Thursday 12th June 2025
Are you prepared for an immigration site visit?
Employing immigrant workers is a key component of many UK organisation's recruitment strategies. Ensuring compliance with UKVI requirements can prevent disruption to business, damage to reputation and ensure you maintain your sponsor licence.
Are you confident that your systems, record-keeping and documentation would pass an inspection?
UKVI can audit companies with or without notice; this course will give you the tools to identify and correct potential issues that could lead to penalties.
This will ensure you:
- Gain a thorough understanding of the necessary documentation and procedures
- Learn what a UKVI compliance officer will check and inspect, and how to ensure your systems are all compliant
- Acquire the tools to maintain and update your records and reduce the risk of non-compliance or fines
- Receive an overview of potential problems, highlighting where you can improve your systems
- Understand the key elements of compliant HR policies and procedures, and what training your team will need
- Learn how to avoid illegally employing workers
- Ensure your recruitment procedures are fit for purpose
- Receive five top tips from our immigration expert
Delegate five-star feedback
"Really well put together " - Maritime and Coastguard Agency
"Very informative, and information intense" - MHA
"This was the right pace and clearly explained; very helpful for a newbie in this area of work." - Canford Healthcare Ltd
"Very informative session with useful content. Great that the links are included on a number of the slides, too".
" I really enjoyed the delivery, it was engaging and there were plenty of examples. It was great to hear about real life examples, including from his own career."
"The trainer was brilliant and very knowledgeable". - Sanctuary
"I felt that this mornings webinar was the best I've been to to date. It was explained in a way that we all completely understood, and not only that, we could retain the information". - Autism at Kingwood
"I liked how he brought topics to life with cases"
"Learnt a lot and feel prepared now to start putting action plans in place ready to become sponsored employee." - Scottish Autism
"Great info and real life experience shared!" - The Arora Group
ONLINE TRAINING COURSE PLATFORM
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Prefer to run this course In-house?
We offer this course as a face-to-face or online In-house training option, if this would be more suitable, please email catherine.ouston@bfi.co.uk.
Which functions will benefit from attending
- HR and recruitment professionals, administration, training, security, risk, compliance, legal, policy, vetting and screening, operations and all line managers and directors and staff with responsibility for Right to Work checks and non- UK employee recruitment
Schedule
Welcome, housekeeping, aims & objectives for the day
A chance to revisit your reasons for attending the course, meet fellow delegates and establish and agree learning objectives
Why do audits happen?
Simon Kenny
Partner - Immigration & Global Mobility , Spencer West LLP
Simon is an immigration lawyer who helps with individual immigration applications, permission to work, illegal working penalties and sponsor licence suspension. He specialises in Skilled Worker and sponsor licence applications, right-to-work processes and defences to civil penalties. He also has significant experience in managing global immigration programmes and post-Brexit immigration compliance in respect of business travellers working across the EEA. Simon has specific expertise in working with institutions and individuals in the higher education sector. He has worked with universities on preparation for audit, right-to-work processes, defence to civil penalties and reviewing Certificates of Sponsorship for employees. Helpline services to both HR teams and individual employees of universities have been a major part of Simon’s recent career. He also helps academic staff make applications within the Global Talent programme. Simon has been listed as one of the UK’s leading practitioners in every edition of the Legal 500 since 2015. He was individually commended in the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Europe Awards in 2019 for research and analysis conducted following a Freedom of Information Act request regarding Certificate of Sponsorship allocations. This featured as a headline news story across numerous national newspapers. Simon was an immigration officer for several years and, after becoming a solicitor, an immigration manager in Big 4 professional services companies. That provided him with a focus on achieving the best outcomes for clients with reference to wider global mobility issues and creativity in finding solutions which work. This experience informs his immigration advice and helps ensure other legal issues related to immigration are identified at an early stage in considering an assignment.
- What are UKVI Looking for?
- Distinction between compliance/ pre licence and post licence visits
- Consequences of an adverse audit
- Stats and the emergence of desktop audits
Comfort break
How to prepare
- Confirming the legal basis for the visit
- Preparing right-to-work information
- Preparing sponsorship information
- Dealing with mistakes
Comfort break
On the day
- Documents to present on arrival
- Interviews
- Access to data and GDPR
- Legal support?
Follow-up
- Forwarding information
- Complying with Action plans
- Assessing and replying to a civil penalty
Five top tips
Final Q&A and wrap up
End of workshop
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