UK Register of Licensed Sponsors · UK Home Office
The sponsor register,
with a memory.
The Home Office republishes the register almost every working day and keeps no public archive. We snapshot it daily, so the questions the official file cannot answer — when did this employer appear, what changed, is it still listed — have an answer here.
Searching 2,000 published organisation pages. The archive holds 126,915 listed organisations and is being published in waves — why.
BMW (UK) Holdings Limited
On the registerFarnborough
- First observed
- or earlier
- Routes held
- 6
- Company no.
- 01213133
- Incorporated
- Changes recorded
- 0 since 2 August 2026
The two marked figures come from our own archive. The official register publishes neither, and they cannot be reconstructed after the fact.
What we hold that the register does not
A first-seen date
The register states who is listed today. It does not state when they arrived. Every organisation here carries the earliest date we observed it, taken from our own archive rather than asserted.
A change log
Additions, disappearances, route changes and rating changes, computed by comparing each day's file with the day before. Nobody can reconstruct this backwards — it only exists if someone was watching.
Language we will not overstate
An organisation leaving the register can mean many things. We publish exactly what we can support: that it no longer appears, and on what date. Never more.
Recent changes
Snapshot 1 of a permanent archive
The archive opened on 2 August 2026. A change log needs two snapshots to exist, so the first entries appear after the next republication of the register.
Everything listed today is recorded as on the register since at least 2 August 2026 — not as an addition. We do not claim to know what happened before we started watching.
Browse by route
| Sponsorship route | Organisations listed |
|---|---|
| Skilled Worker | 121,593 |
| Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker | 10,310 |
| Tier 2 Ministers of Religion | 1,933 |
| Creative Worker | 1,576 |
| Charity Worker | 1,528 |
| International Sportsperson | 1,457 |
| Religious Worker | 1,422 |
| Global Business Mobility: Graduate Trainee | 617 |
| Global Business Mobility: UK Expansion Worker | 421 |
| Government Authorised Exchange | 245 |
| International Agreement | 134 |
| Scale-up | 92 |
| Global Business Mobility: Service Supplier | 53 |
| Seasonal Worker | 6 |
| Global Business Mobility: Secondment Worker | 6 |
| Intra-company Routes | 1 |
| Intra Company Transfers (ICT) | 1 |
Sponsors by town
- Skilled Worker · London (34,982)
- Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker · London (5,641)
- Skilled Worker · Birmingham (2,968)
- Skilled Worker · Manchester (2,766)
- Skilled Worker · Leicester (1,373)
- Skilled Worker · Glasgow (1,271)
- Skilled Worker · Bristol (1,222)
- Skilled Worker · Edinburgh (1,099)
- Skilled Worker · Leeds (1,033)
- Skilled Worker · Nottingham (999)
- Skilled Worker · Ilford (928)
- Skilled Worker · Reading (890)
How this is built
Every figure on this site is derived from files published by the UK Home Office under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (ASSUMED — confirmation requested), captured on a schedule and stored unmodified with a SHA-256 hash. Nothing is estimated, inferred or generated. Read the full methodology →
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