The Immigration and Nationality (Replacement of Tier 2 and Fees) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

Amendments to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (Part V Exemption: Licensed Sponsors Tiers 2 and 4) Order 2009

4.—(1) Article 3 (exemption of licensed sponsors and Student sponsors) is amended as follows.

(2) For the heading substitute “Exemption for worker sponsors and Student sponsors”.

(3) In paragraph (1) for sub-paragraph (a) substitute—

“(a) are worker sponsors and provide immigration advice or immigration services free of charge to worker migrants or Tier 2 migrants or to the immediate family of those migrants, or”.

(4) For paragraph (2) substitute—

“(2) The immigration advice or services given must be restricted to matters relating to—

(a) the migrant’s application, or

(b) an application for entry clearance, leave to enter or leave to remain made by the migrant’s immediate family and which is dependent on the migrant’s application.

(2A) In paragraph (2), the references to the migrant’s application are to the migrant’s application under—

(a) Tier 2 or Tier 4 of the Part 6A Points-based system,

(b) Appendix ST: Student to the immigration rules,

(c) Appendix CS: Child Student to those rules,

(d) Appendix Skilled Worker to those rules,

(e) Appendix Intra-Company Routes to those rules,

(f) Appendix T2 Minister of Religion to those rules,

(g) Appendix T2 Sportsperson to those rules,

(h) Appendix Student to those rules, or

(i) Appendix Child Student to those rules.”

(5) In paragraph (3) for “the licensed sponsor” substitute “the worker sponsor”.