Student Sponsorship: Summer Essentials
🏷️ From £90
🎧Admissions staff, Sponsor licence key personnel, International student liaison officers
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Course outline:
With the end of the academic term, a new phase of your school’s ongoing sponsor licence compliance journey commences. Now is the time to ensure that key visa and immigration checks are being made, including:
- Confirming and recording sponsored students’ travel arrangements and contact details;
- Monitoring visa application progression for incoming or returning sponsored students;
- Reviewing non-sponsored students’ immigration status and, where relevant, their visa applications’ progression; and
- Preparing for enrolment.
This 1-hour webinar will provide colleagues with current guidance and top tips to ensure ongoing sponsor licence compliance and avoid common pitfalls during the school holidays.
Training topics include:
- Key recording duties for sponsored students at the end of term and throughout the holidays.
- Timely tips to support smooth visa processing.
- Common pitfalls for sponsors during the summer holidays.
- Refusals: how to report and what this means for your BCA.
- Understanding the transition from BRPs to eVisas.
Speaker:
Kate Hollyer, Partner and Director, BSA Group Legal Services Ltd
Kate Hollyer is Executive Director (Legal) of BSA Group and Director of BSA Legal Services Ltd. A qualified solicitor with over 14 years’ experience in UK immigration law, she advises and supports members on a full range of immigration matters. Before joining BSA in 2022, Kate was Partner and Head of Department at a leading UK law firm, where she built extensive expertise in complex immigration cases. Since 2014, Kate has lived in boarding houses alongside her Housemaster husband, giving her a unique, first-hand perspective on the challenges and opportunities of boarding life.
