Borderless

Sponsored hiring is part of how UK tech scales. Engineering, product, data: the pipeline runs through the Home Office, and the Home Office doesn't move at startup speed.

Borderless Immigration is the UK's tech-led platform for sponsoring overseas hires. From Skilled Worker visa applications and Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) requests to right-to-work (RTW) checks and ongoing Home Office compliance, we run the full sponsorship lifecycle, so People and Talent teams don't have to stitch it together themselves.

So far: 600+ employers on the platform, 500+ sponsor licences secured, 4,500+ visas granted, 13,000+ professionals sponsored.

In practice that means visa applications turned around in days rather than weeks, sponsor licence applications at a fraction of what a solicitor charges, and every CoS and RTW check sitting in one place rather than spread across four inboxes and a spreadsheet.

Operational growth multiplies the pressure. Opening a new office, doubling an engineering team, scaling into a new market: sponsored hires arrive in waves, not one at a time. The platform is built for that volume, whether the next quarter brings two sponsored professionals or twenty.

Compliance is the part most sponsors underestimate. One missed CoS report or one out-of-date RTW record can downgrade or revoke a licence. Borderless gives sponsors a single place to manage their licence and track every sponsored professional, without the spreadsheets and without chasing a solicitor for an answer.

TechUK members get a team that speaks both immigration law and the realities of scaling a UK tech business. If your sponsored headcount is growing, or your compliance setup hasn't been reviewed in a while, let's talk. There's just too much at stake.