Guidance

Pre-licence priority service guidance

Guidance on the pre-licence priority service and how it allows sponsors to prioritise their application for a sponsor licence.

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Pre-licence priority service guidance

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Details

It gives information to potential sponsors on:

  • how to apply
  • the fee for the service
  • the service level agreement

Updates to this page

Published 19 August 2021
Last updated 10 March 2023 + show all updates
  1. Information added about which applications are not eligible for the priority service at the moment.

  2. Updated the guidance.

  3. Note added explaining that Global Business Mobility (GBM) UK Expansion Worker, Service Supplier Worker and Secondment Worker and Scale-up Worker applications are not eligible for priority at this moment.

  4. Updated maximum number of priority service requests per day.

  5. First published.

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