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Third-party advisers

This page explains the additional support we have put in place for potential sponsors who would like advice on their sponsor application.

We have designed the points-based system application process to be straightforward and transparent. This website includes comprehensive guidance as well as supporting documents and tools to show how the processes work in practice. Many organisations apply to become sponsors without any help from third-party organisations, or continue to use their existing third-party representatives. However, we are aware that some potential applicants would like further assurance on their readiness to make a sponsor application.

We have produced a list of organisations that we have assessed as advisers to prospective sponsors. The advisers on this list, which you can download from the right of this page, have demonstrated a good understanding of the sponsorship arrangements and have given us evidence about the type of checks and services they will make when working with clients.

These third-party advisers can provide you with a document that assesses your readiness to make a sponsorship application. You can then choose whether to submit this document to us in support of your sponsorship application - if you do so, we will not normally duplicate the checks that we expect the adviser to have already made. We would therefore expect to make decisions on applications supported by one of these documents well within the standard six-week timescale for processing an application. However, we reserve the right to carry out checks and to visit any prospective sponsor as part of the sponsorship application and management process at any time.

The list covers only those advisers that we have assessed satisfactorily to date. If a particular adviser is not listed, this does not indicate that it is not eligible for inclusion in the future. Prospective sponsors are free to appoint any adviser they choose.

We have no formal relationship or contract with the advisers on the list, nor do we accredit them. They have no relationship with us which should have any impact on the normal operation of the client-adviser relationship. They are listed here to provide you, if you need reassurance about your application, with a range of possible providers who have demonstrated sponsorship services to our satisfaction.

Are you an adviser?

If you are an adviser or representative and you would like to be added to the above list of organisations, you should read our page on Providing advice and support to prospective sponsors.

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