A refusal costs the applicant thousands in fees. A compliance slip puts the employer’s sponsor licence at risk. Check the salary, hours and occupation against the April 2026 rules in two minutes, before either of you commits.
£3,000+
Visa fees, the health surcharge and the skills charge are often paid before anyone confirms the salary clears the threshold.
Every month
Variable pay or unpaid leave can breach the monthly salary test even when the annual figure looks fine.
48 months
Lower early-career salary thresholds run out. Miss the cliff date and the required salary jumps overnight.
SponsorCheck reads the actual April 2026 rules and gives a deterministic answer, the same maths the Home Office applies, with the numbers shown.
The same deterministic check whether you’re the person applying or the employer assigning the Certificate of Sponsorship.
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Whatever the occupation, the salary and eligibility test is the same. Run a free check for any of them.
For the applicant, it’s fees and a future. For the sponsor, it’s a Certificate of Sponsorship and a licence on the line. SponsorCheck runs the same deterministic check either way, before anyone commits.
Applicants
Know if the salary and role clear the bar before you pay for anything.
Sponsors & HR
Catch a threshold or occupation problem before you assign the CoS.
Applicants and sponsors use SponsorCheck to find the problem before they pay for it.
We ran it before assigning a CoS and it flagged the salary was £1,800 under the going rate. Saved us a refused application and the fees that go with it.
I was about to pay for the visa when a friend sent me this. Turns out my hours pro-rated the threshold differently than I'd assumed. Two minutes well spent.
The breakdown is genuinely clear: offered vs required, the hourly-rate gate, the costs. I now share it with clients before our first call.
We ran it before assigning a CoS and it flagged the salary was £1,800 under the going rate. Saved us a refused application and the fees that go with it.
I was about to pay for the visa when a friend sent me this. Turns out my hours pro-rated the threshold differently than I'd assumed. Two minutes well spent.
The breakdown is genuinely clear: offered vs required, the hourly-rate gate, the costs. I now share it with clients before our first call.
We sponsor care workers and the pay-period trap had bitten us before. This catches it up front. Exactly the sanity check we needed.
Built on the actual 2026 rules, and it shows. No vague ‘maybe’, just a clear pass/fail with the numbers behind it.
It told me my early-career discount ran out three months before my extension. I'd have walked straight into the salary cliff otherwise.
We sponsor care workers and the pay-period trap had bitten us before. This catches it up front. Exactly the sanity check we needed.
Built on the actual 2026 rules, and it shows. No vague ‘maybe’, just a clear pass/fail with the numbers behind it.
It told me my early-career discount ran out three months before my extension. I'd have walked straight into the salary cliff otherwise.
Fast, honest, and free to check. The paid PDF was worth it for the written summary alone. I handed it straight to our solicitor.
Most ‘calculators’ are out of date. This one matched what our adviser told us, to the pound.
We use it as a first filter before any sponsorship conversation. It's saved us hours and at least one expensive mistake.
Fast, honest, and free to check. The paid PDF was worth it for the written summary alone. I handed it straight to our solicitor.
Most ‘calculators’ are out of date. This one matched what our adviser told us, to the pound.
We use it as a first filter before any sponsorship conversation. It's saved us hours and at least one expensive mistake.
The honest answers: what it is, how accurate it is, and what the paid report adds.
No. SponsorCheck is a preliminary, automated check, a mathematical reading of the UK Immigration Rules in force from April 2026. Always confirm the outcome with a regulated immigration solicitor or the person who manages your sponsor licence before acting.
Every threshold, going rate and fee comes straight from the April 2026 GOV.UK tables, and the engine is deterministic, with no guesswork. It won't catch every edge case or a later rule change, which is why the result is a starting point, not a final word.
No. The eligibility check is free and needs no sign-up. You only enter an email if you buy the full PDF report, so we can send it to you.
The occupation match with duty-alignment scores, a month-by-month pay-period compliance check, the full financial-exposure breakdown, and an adviser-ready written summary you can hand to a solicitor.
Yes, it's built for both. Run it before assigning a Certificate of Sponsorship to confirm the salary, hours and occupation clear the bar, so a threshold or occupation problem doesn't surface after you've committed.
The Standard Skilled Worker route under the rules in force from April 2026, including the current salary thresholds, going rates, the hourly-rate floor, and the 8 April 2026 fees.
Running the eligibility check is free. The full PDF report is a single one-off. No subscription, no account, no catch.
Just want the verdict? Run the free checkFree to run. Pay the £20 only if you want the full PDF.
