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This Practice Note details the roles, responsibilities and requirements for the Authorising Officer, Key Contact, Level 1 users and Level 2 users (key personnel) of a sponsor in the Workers and Temporary Workers routes. It also looks at aspects relating to legal representatives.

The Worker routes are:

1. •

   Skilled Worker

2. •

   Global Business Mobility (GBM)—Senior or Specialist Worker

3. •

   T2 Minister of Religion, and

4. •

   International Sportsperson

The Temporary Worker routes are:

1. •

   Charity Worker

2. •

   Creative Worker

3. •

   GBM—Graduate Trainee, Service Supplier, Secondment Worker and UK Expansion Worker

4. •

   Scale-up

5. •

   Government Authorised Exchange

6. •

   International Agreement

7. •

   Religious Worker, and

8. •

   Seasonal Worker

Certain sponsorship aspects looked at in this Practice Note are different for the UK Expansion Worker route. These are highlighted briefly below. For further information, see Practice Note: Sponsoring a UK Expansion Worker—The GBM: UK Expansion Worker sponsor licence aspects.

When applying for a sponsor licence, an organisation must decide who will act as its 'Key Personnel' for the purposes of the licence and its relationship with the Home Office.

These