- Updated Visa Guidance
The Home Office has updated it’s guidance on visas to say that if you are a business that is sponsoring a person coming to the UK under the following routes
- Skilled Worker visa
- Health and Care Worker visa
- Intra-company Transfer visa
- T2 Worker visas
- T5 Temporary Worker visas
And they are waiting for their work visa application to be decided, you may allow them to start work before their visa application has been decided if:
- you’ve assigned them a CoS and either:
- they are applying under the Health and Care visa
- their CoS was assigned before 1 January 2021
- the employee submitted their application before their current visa expired
- the role they are employed in is the same as the one on their CoS
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-advice-for-tier-2-4-and-5-sponsors