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Streamline your business’
Skilled Worker visa sponsorship process

Extend and apply for Skilled Worker visas for a fixed fee of £650+VAT—with Nation.better.

Extend and apply for Skilled Worker visas for a fixed fee of £650+VAT—with Nation.better.

Streamline your business’
Skilled Worker visa sponsorship process

Extend and apply for Skilled Worker visas for a fixed fee of £800+VAT—with Nation.better.

Extend and apply for Skilled Worker visas for a fixed fee of £650+VAT—with Nation.better.

Streamline your business’
Skilled Worker visa sponsorship process

Extend and apply for Skilled Worker visas for a fixed fee of £650+VAT—with Nation.better.

Extend and apply for Skilled Worker visas for a fixed fee of £650+VAT—with Nation.better.

Why choose Nation.better?

Expert support

The support we provide you is backed by a team of qualified and experienced immigration experts.

Step-by-step guidance

Our experts ensure that you and your candidates are supported through every step of the process.

Transparent support

When you work with us, we ensure that you get full visibility into the whole application process.

Why do you need Skilled Worker visa sponsorship support?

The Skilled Worker visa application process is challenging

While sponsoring skilled workers is an incredibly rewarding process, your selected candidates may struggle to get visa clearance due to the complexities in the Skilled Worker visa application process.

Expert support can help you simplify the process

At Nation.better, we understand how time-consuming and stressful these processes can be for you and your employees. That’s why we support you with the experience and knowledge of our legal advisers to streamline the process.

Enjoy hands-on, experienced guidance today

You can start now for a fixed fee of £800+VAT (not including the Home Office fee) and explore a guided path that will help you support your employees with their Skilled Worker visa application process and get visa clearance.

How much does it cost to obtain a Skilled Worker Visa?

  • Depending on the circumstances, your candidate will need to pay between £635 and £1,423 for the application. This is in addition to the £624 per year health surcharge.

 

  • On your behalf, you must pay between £364 to £1,000 when you assign a Certificate of Sponsorship to your candidate. Contact our experts for a complete report on all the costs associated when hiring under the Skilled Worker visa route.

What are the Skilled Worker visa requirements for employers?

  • You need to be a registered sponsor
  • Your job role offering should be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa
  • You must be able to meet the minimum salary requirements
  • You must prove that you have a genuine vacancy

What does our Skilled Worker visa sponsorship support include?

For a fixed fee of £800+VAT—not including Home Office fees—you get:

What do we do?

At Nation.better, we’re on a mission to make the Skilled Worker visa application process much more straightforward for sponsors and employees in the UK. 

In addition to our expert-led visa application support, we also help companies secure their sponsorship licence, improve compliance, save time, and increase transparency and efficiency throughout the sponsorship process.

What our partners say

Great team, great service and really simple process at a fraction of the standard expensive fees. Nation.better actually educates founders on what it means to be a sponsor. Definitely recommend these guys.
Stephan Eyeson
Co-founder, Survey54
Clear and easy process to go through. Nation.better team made sure that we have a super smooth experience and it gets the job done! 100% recommended.
Mo Khodadadi
Founder, Satis.AI
Easy. Having been through this before with other immigration service providers that over complicate the process and charge high fees, Nation.better through innovative ways made the usual painful and stressful experience full of confidence and care. Highly recommended.
Dasha Selyanova
Managing Director, ZDDZ
As a small company, hiring talent from outside the UK can feel very daunting. Nation.better has designed an efficient system to support employers through complex regulations and paperwork. As an employer, I have transparency over the full process. The team has been highly supportive and responsive as well! It’s been a joy working with them.
Bonnie Chiu
Managing Director, TSIC

FAQs

To be eligible for sponsorship, your candidates must accumulate at least 70 points, consisting of 50 mandatory points and 20 tradable points.

The mandatory points breakdown is as follows:

  • 20 points for a job offer from a UK sponsor
  • 20 points if the job offer meets the required skill level
  • 10 points for passing the English Language test

No, the Home Office abolished the need to conduct the Labour Market Test when it replaced the Tier 2 visa with a Skilled Worker visa.

You still, however, have to prove that you have a genuine vacancy.

To sponsor employees under the Skilled Worker visa, you’ll need to pay the highest of the following options:

  • £25,600 per year
  • £10.10 per hour
  • The ‘going rate’ for the type of job offered 

You can pay between 70% and 90% as long as the salary is £20,480 if the job role is a shortage occupation.

Once you’ve supported your employees to apply online and presented the required documents, you can expect a reply from the Home Office within 3 weeks.

You can check the Home Office website to check for eligible roles and occupation codes. You can also use the ONS occupation coding tool.

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