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We call on the UK Government to introduce a fair and independent review process for health and social care providers whose sponsor licences are revoked.

We recognise that employers must comply with immigration and salary regulations and that overseas workers must receive the pay they are legally entitled to. However, the current system can have devastating consequences for care providers, overseas care workers, vulnerable residents, and local communities, even where issues have been acknowledged, corrected, and workers reimbursed.

When a sponsor licence is revoked, overseas care workers can have as little as 60 days to secure alternative sponsorship or risk leaving the UK. Many have built lives here, paying taxes and National Insurance, raising families, contributing to local communities, and delivering essential care to vulnerable people.

We ask the Government to:

Introduce an independent review or appeal process for sponsor licence revocations.
Allow care providers to rectify genuine salary discrepancies and administrative errors where there is no evidence of deliberate exploitation.
Ensure enforcement decisions consider previous compliance history, remedial action, and the wider impact on residents and staff.
Provide clear guidance and practical support to affected employers and overseas workers.
Protect continuity of care for vulnerable residents when sponsorship licences are revoked.
Review the impact of sponsor licence revocation policies on the health and social care sector.
We are not asking for exemptions from the rules. We are asking for fairness, proportionality, transparency, and an opportunity to put genuine mistakes right while protecting vulnerable people and the care workforce that supports them.