Immigration lawyers in Slough for sponsor licences
A Slough business can hire an immigration lawyer for its sponsor licence without ever meeting face to face. The Home Office accepts the licence application and its supporting documents by email or online. Send us a message with the form here, and a single immigration solicitors firm that takes sponsor licence cases will respond.
- Licensed sponsors based in Slough863organisations, a 0.7% share of the UK's 127,744
- Using the Skilled Worker route844of Slough's 863
- Senior or Specialist transfers54sponsors moving staff from an overseas branch
- Sponsor licence fee£611 or £1,682small or charity / medium or large, paid to the Home Office
Source: the Home Office licensed sponsor register, 22 October 2026 edition.
Sponsor licence help from immigration solicitors in Slough
When employers in Slough look for an immigration solicitor, they usually want help with one of these:
- getting a licence on a first application
- seeing what their options are after a refusal
- staying on top of their sponsor duties
- replying to a suspension letter, or handling a revocation
- sponsoring one particular worker with a licence they already have
Each one has its own paperwork and its own deadlines. One regulated immigration solicitor firm receives your question and then works with you directly. What that involves is set out in our general guide to immigration solicitors.
| Skilled Worker | 844 |
|---|---|
| Senior or Specialist Worker | 54 |
| Graduate Trainee | 10 |
| Minister of Religion (old Tier 2) | 8 |
| International Sportsperson | 6 |
| Creative Worker | 5 |
| Religious Worker | 5 |
| Charity Worker | 4 |
Does your immigration lawyer need to be based in Slough?
No, not for the licence. Applications go in online. Your supporting documents have to reach the Home Office by email, no later than 5 working days after you submit the form (Appendix A, sections 1.3 and 1.5) Your key contact gets any caseworker question by email. This is the Home Office's main contact, as named on the licence. So a firm in any part of the UK can handle your Slough application by email and video.
Visits are the exception. Visits from the Home Office for compliance checks happen at your premises, or at any place your sponsored staff work, and they may arrive unannounced (sponsor guidance Part 3).
Slough employers that hold a sponsor licence
The Home Office register dated 22 October 2026 shows 863 organisations giving their town as Slough (GOV.UK register). That works out at roughly 0.7% of the UK's 127,744 licensed sponsors. Out of 5,763 towns on the register, Slough sits between Milton Keynes (847) and Reading (913). A Skilled Worker licence is held by 844 of the Slough sponsors. To look up a named employer, use our register search.
Keeping a Slough licence compliant
Once you're licensed, you have 20 working days to report most changes affecting your organisation. You do this through the SMS, the Home Office's online sponsor account, also called the sponsorship management system (Part 3, section C2). A suspension letter also gives you 20 working days to reply in writing (Part 3, section C9). That tight deadline is usually when employers call in a solicitor. The day-to-day duties are set out in our sponsor duties guide.
What lawyers charge and the papers to gather first
Prices are set by each solicitor. Among firms publishing prices, two ask £3,000 to £4,500 plus VAT to apply for a sponsor licence. The firm that answers you will quote its own fees. Before contacting anyone, it helps to have these ready (Appendix A):
- your most recent annual accounts, or a Companies House link if they are online for free
- a current bank statement for your business
- HMRC proof that you are PAYE-registered, with your employer reference on it
- a staff list showing everyone's job title, if you have no more than 50 employees
- who will act as level 1 user, authorising officer, and key contact, the three licence management roles (GOV.UK)
Questions Slough employers ask about immigration lawyers
How do I confirm a Slough immigration lawyer is regulated?
As Slough sits in England, the Solicitors Regulation Authority regulates solicitors there, and they appear on the SRA register. There is also a Find a Solicitor directory run by the Law Society of England and Wales. When the adviser isn't a solicitor, use the Immigration Advice Authority adviser finder; it states what level of work each adviser is allowed to do. If an adviser is not regulated, you cannot get your money back, according to GOV.UK (GOV.UK).
What happens if our Slough licence application was refused?
If you applied without success in the last 6 months, you will not usually get a licence (GOV.UK). A review is only possible if the caseworker made a mistake or failed to consider your documents, not just because you disagree (GOV.UK). Which of these applies is something a solicitor can tell you after reading the refusal letter. Our refused licence guide has more detail.
Ask an immigration solicitor about your Slough business
Tell the firm what you are trying to do and it will answer by email.