Student Sponsorship: Summer Essentials

🏷️ From £90
🎧Admissions staff, Sponsor licence key personnel, International student liaison officers
📍 Online
🎥 Watch live or on catch up
✅ Included in BSA CPD Pass

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.

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Speaker:

Kate Hollyer, Director of BSA Legal
Kate advises independent day and boarding schools on the immigration law governing their international student recruitment. She leads the legal function across Abitas Group, heads its SRA-regulated practice BSA Legal, and has practised in UK immigration law for over 15 years.

Her work covers Student sponsor licence compliance at senior leadership and governance level, and she acts for schools facing UKVI enforcement action. For schools sponsoring under-18s, immigration compliance is safeguarding, and much of her practice sits where sponsor duties and safeguarding frameworks meet. She has lived in boarding schools throughout her career.

Kate represents the school sector on the Home Office’s Future Border and Immigration System (FBIS) Education Advisory Group and the UK Agent Quality Framework Steering Group, and the boarding sector at the All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Students. She is a qualified solicitor and a member of ILPA.