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Immigration Skills Charge definition

What does Immigration Skills Charge mean? The Immigration Skills Charge is a Home Office levy that a UK-licensed sponsor must pay when assigning a Certificate of Sponsorship for most Skilled Worker and Senior or Specialist Worker (Global Business Mobility) roles. It is a statutory charge set by the Immigration Skills Charge Regulations 2017 (as amended) and applies across England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Only the sponsoring employer may pay it; it cannot be passed to, or recouped from, the sponsored worker (including through deductions or clawbacks). The amount is prescribed by regulation by reference to the period of sponsorship stated on the Certificate of Sponsorship,...

UK Immigration Skills Charge: regulatory framework, applicability, exemptions (including EU TCA), 2025 rate increase, refunds and sponsor compliance for Skilled Worker and Senior or Specialist Worker routes

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Background

In December 2015, the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC)—an independent arm’s length public body advising government on immigration—issued a comprehensive assessment of Tier 2 policy. At that point, Tier 2 encompassed the skilled worker pathways. Among its proposals, the MAC suggested an immigration skills charge (ISC) to encourage UK employers to ‘reduce their reliance’ on migrant labour and channel resources into training and upskilling domestic workers. The Committee examined this at the government’s specific request, and provision for an ISC already appeared in the Immigration Bill then before Parliament, which later became the Immigration Act 2016 (IA 2016). The MAC advised that the levy should apply to all sponsoring employers hiring via Tier 2 (General) and (Intra-Company Transfer) (ICT) routes, save for cases where individuals were sponsored under the Graduate Trainee and the (then still operating) Skills Transfer ICT sub-categories. On 24 March 2016, the government issued its response to the MAC’s review, agreeing to most of the Committee’s recommendations. The response broadly endorsed the MAC’s overall approach and conclusions, reflecting acceptance of most findings and proposals set out. This included confirming that an ISC would be imposed on medium and large Tier 2 employers at an initial rate of...

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