According to the Home Office’s guidelines, they will revoke the sponsor licences of companies who are fined two or more times for employing illegal workers, but only if one of those fines is ‘at the maximum amount’.
However they also say they will ‘normally revoke’ the licences of companies which ‘fail to comply’ with any of their sponsor duties, which include ‘complying with our immigration laws, including all parts of the Worker and Temporary Worker sponsor guidance’.
The guidelines also explicitly state that they ‘will normally revoke’ the licences of companies which receive two or more fines for illegal working, or where they are sponsoring a worker ‘subject to immigration control’ and ‘that worker does not have immigration permission to work in the UK or do the work in question’.
It is unclear which, if any, of the more than 200 companies met the Home Office’s guidelines which would usually result in having their sponsor licences revoked.
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