Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what operational checks her Department undertakes to satisfy itself that visa holders remain compliant with the conditions attached to their leave throughout the duration of that leave.

It is a core duty of Sponsor Licence holders to report any material change of circumstances relating to their sponsored workers / students. If these denote that a visa holder has not been compliant with their visa conditions their status will be reviewed and where appropriate cancelled.

In addition, routine compliance checks are undertaken for sponsors, workers and students through a variety of mechanisms, such as on-site visits to places of work and study to salary and employment checks to ensure that a worker is undertaking the role and being renumerated as defined in their visa application.

In applications for permission to enter and stay a decision maker will review the individual’s compliance with previous periods of leave and further applications will be refused where non-compliance is evidenced.