How Immigration Compliance can Support Global Mobility
Once a tactical solution to solving skills shortages, global mobility is now integral to successful organisations’ talent and overall business strategies. And it’s not just larger organisations; mid-size companies are relying on overseas assignments and talent mobility, creating an increasingly fluid and highly competitive global landscape. But with the growth of global mobility comes an […]
Share Code for Settled Status 2026: How to Check & What It Shows
A share code for settled status is an online tool provided by the UK government that allows individuals with settled or pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme to prove their right to work in the UK. Instead of presenting physical documents, individuals can generate a unique code through the Home Office online system, which […]
Managing Risks of Senior Executive Business Travel
Senior executive business travel is an essential aspect of corporate operations, allowing key decision-makers to attend meetings, secure partnerships, and oversee global ventures. Ensuring these trips run smoothly requires careful planning, particularly when it comes to cost management, compliance, and employee wellbeing. Senior executive business travel remains a source of compliance risk for multinational employers. […]
Cross-Culture Management In Virtual Teams
Managing a business comprised of employees from multiple different cultural backgrounds can be challenging, with considerations on both an individual and organisational level. With remote working across borders now a common feature in the post-pandemic economy, it’s important that employers take a proactive approach to managing cultural differences positively, to enhance workforce cohesion, collaboration and […]
How to Check Someone’s Immigration Status in the UK 2026
Checking someone’s immigration status is a legal requirement for UK employers to ensure they are hiring individuals who have the right to work in the country. Employers can either use online processes for those with digital immigration status, or a manual process for certain employees presenting specific types of physical documents. Records of these checks […]
How to Check Employees’ Right to Work in the UK
Checking employees’ Right to Work is a legal requirement for all UK employers to ensure that individuals they hire are authorised to work in the country. The process involves verifying the individual’s identity and their immigration status. Employers can conduct these checks digitally or manually, depending on the individual’s status and circumstances. Failure to check […]
Business Travel Compliance: Managing Risk
International business travellers remain a common source of immigration compliance risk for organisations. Although they typically make up the largest proportion of an organisation’s global movement, the reality is, this cohort tends to fall under the radar of internal global mobility policies and programmes, meaning their movements are neither measured, nor monitored nor managed for […]
Immigration Compliance & Reputational Risk
Immigration compliance is an area of reputational risk employers ignore at their peril. We are seeing increased Home Office scrutiny and enforcement action against organisations, with civil and criminal penalties for breaches of their immigration duties. It seems no organisation is too large or too reputable to avoid Home Office scrutiny. All UK employers are […]
Global Mobility for Competitive Advantage
International workforce mobility remains a major focus for organisations seeking to maintain a competitive edge. Businesses with global operations must balance the need to move talent across borders with the growing challenges of immigration compliance, rising costs, and shifting workforce expectations. One of the key considerations for employers is managing the expense of international assignments, […]
3 Signs of Breaching Immigration Duties
The Home Office’s tough, low-tolerance stance toward illegal working continues to push immigration compliance high up the business risk agenda. UKVI has extensive powers to investigate and enforce illegal employment issues across all sectors and types of organisation. Civil penalties also provide a welcome income stream for the Home Office. UK employers should be under no […]