BSA UKVI sponsor compliance clinic
🏷️ From £470
🎧 Senior Leadership, Finance, Admissions, Compliance, Sponsor Licence Key Personnel, International Student Liaison Officers, Boarding / Pastoral staff
📍 Online
Context:
Understanding your school’s responsibilities as an international student sponsor is crucial. Compliance with sponsor licence duties extends beyond issuing CAS and the grant of visa; duties continue throughout the lifespan of the licence itself. Regardless of your level of experience in sponsoring international students, this clinic equips you with the necessary information to uphold continuous compliance.
Designed for staff responsible for daily sponsor compliance management. Stay updated on student sponsor compliance changes and ensure your processes align with UKVI requirements, boosting confidence in your school’s compliance practices.
Course Outline
The clinic will be held over two separate days:
- Clinic Day 1: January 14, 2027
- Clinic Day 2: January 27, 2027
Timings: 10:00 – 15:30 GMT/BST
All clinic days will be held online via zoom.
The clinic covers the following:
- Understanding your responsibilities as a UKVI sponsor
- Sponsor compliance: best practice and key consideration
- Managing CAS allocations and your Basic Compliance Assessment (BCA)
- Recruitment processes and due diligence
- Managing and understanding alternative immigration routes
- Safeguarding, risk management and student care arrangements
- Monitoring, reporting and record-keeping requirements
- Practical case studies and group discussions
- Q&A session
- Includes CPD certificate
Key takeaways:
- Practical tips for Student sponsor best practice.
- Ability to lessen the burden of UKVI compliance alongside peers.
- Experience in navigating common and complex scenarios.
- Awareness of the risk-exposure for schools recruiting internationally.
- Best practices for record-keeping.
- Understanding of monitoring and tracking immigration status requirements.
- Monitoring arrangements for leave-outs/exeats/end of term.
- Awareness of SMS reporting requirements.
Speakers:
Kate Hollyer, Partner and Director, BSA Legal Services Ltd
Kate is Legal Director of Abitas Group and Director of BSA Legal Services Ltd. As a qualified solicitor with more than 12 years’ experience advising clients on UK immigration law, Kate assists members with all immigration and safeguarding legal matters. Prior to joining BSA in 2022 Kate was Partner and Head of Department at a leading full-service UK law firm. Having resided in state, preparatory and senior school boarding houses since 2014 with her Housemaster husband, Kate has a unique perspective of boarding life.
Antonia Price, Head of Immigration, BSA Legal Services Ltd
Antonia is Head of Immigration, joining BSA after over 20 years working in Immigration and Global Mobility across a range of industries. Antonia’s focus has always been on delivering an excellent client service by building strong and trusted relationships with her contacts and understanding their priorities and needs. She has extensive experience on a range of visa application types and the processes and requirements of the Home Office. Antonia was particularly keen to join the Abitas group because her boarding school experience as a child was wonderful and she has always advocated boarding life and the positive aspects surrounding it.
Mark Taylor, Legal Consultant, BSA Legal Services Ltd
In a previous reincarnation Mark founded The Taylor Partnership – supporting U.K. independent schools in meeting the compliance demands of their UKVI sponsor licences and training many school staff. Mark was previously a Trustee of AEGIS and, during the pandemic, assisted independent schools in creating Covid management plans and organised testing. More recently, after travelling the world, Mark has identified the increased risk to independent schools as a result of the need for greater probity and due diligence in financial awareness of school suppliers, parents and agents. Mark’s interest in this field was first sparked in 2016-17 when he supported a number of schools following the disappearance of students from Vietnam.
