1 Jan 2027 Deadline

Temporary Shortage List (TSL) & Immigration Salary List (ISL) rules change on 1 January 2027, based on the MAC's recommendations, subject to Home Office confirmation. Map which of your sponsored workers and planned CoS hires across Care, Hospitality, and Construction are affected. See the impact

For UK sponsor licence holders, starting with care, hospitality and construction

Find the gaps before your compliance visit does.

Inquivra rehearses your Home Office visit, checks every answer against your CoS, payroll and rotas, and shows exactly what to fix, including when the rules or shortage lists change — keeping you ready for sponsor duties day to day.

Synthetic demo data · Not a Home Office inspection or compliance certificate

Contradiction map / Maria Santos / Weekly hours

High

Authorising Officer

“37.5 hours a week, as per her contract.”

Matches CoS

Sponsored worker

“Usually around 44 hours — extra night shifts most weeks.”

Differs from CoS

Records

CoS37.5 h
Contract37.5 h
Rota · Mar v244 h

Internal rehearsal completion (%)

25%

Coverage-limited. Not a Home Office result or pass likelihood.

Rota shows +17% over CoS hours — outside the 10% tolerance in SW-HRS v1.

Owner: HRNeeds: overtime agreement

Inquivra helps you fix records and working arrangements — never answers.

We never coach workers to give false, rehearsed, or misleading statements. Coaching workers is a serious compliance breach. Inquivra locks worker responses as read-only, never displays model or suggested answers during check-ins, and requires dated documentary evidence plus a reviewer's written reason before any finding can be closed.

Shortage-list and rule changes

See who the 1 January 2027 TSL/ISL change could affect

Map current sponsored workers and planned CoS slots across Care, Hospitality and Construction against the shortage-list transition, based on the MAC's recommendations, subject to Home Office confirmation. Example list data is illustrative.

Salary uplift

Worker or slot below the new threshold

Assign CoS before 1 Jan 2027

Planned hire relying on current list

Role review

SOC code leaving the list

Open the impact check

1,948

Skilled Worker sponsor licences revoked, Jul 2024 – Jun 2025

Source: Home Office immigration statistics

2×

the revocations of the preceding 12 months (937)

Source: Home Office immigration statistics

124,837

organisations registered to sponsor skilled work (YE Mar 2026)

Source: Register of licensed sponsors

These figures describe overall enforcement and the size of the sponsor register — not how many cases were caused by interview contradictions or could be prevented by software.

How it works

Complete-looking files can still disagree.

Visits can include document checks and interviews with sponsors and workers. Inquivra rehearses exactly that — and traces each contradiction back to the person, the record and the rule.

See it with demo data
  1. 01

    Set up the workspace

    Pick a worker and enter a minimal CoS and employment baseline with evidence references.

  2. 02

    Run a guided mock visit

    Separate question paths for the AO or HR lead and a participating worker, with an informed participation notice.

  3. 03

    Compare every claim

    Answers are checked against CoS, contract, rota, payroll and recorded changes.

  4. 04

    Review source-linked findings

    Mismatches appear as evidence-linked review items — never accusations — with targeted follow-ups.

  5. 05

    Recheck only what changed

    Replace a payslip or correct an answer and only the linked findings reopen, with history kept.

  6. 06

    Export a preparedness report

    Verified facts, open issues, rule references and an evidence index — clearly labelled as rehearsal output.

Between visits

Stay on top of sponsor duties every day, not just before a visit.

HR reporting duties

Each HR change becomes a tracked SMS reporting duty with a 10 or 20 working-day countdown, a recorded reference and a separate reviewer check.

Per-pay-period salary checks

Hours and pay are compared each pay period, with ineligible allowances excluded, so a possible shortfall is flagged early.

Guidance-change impact

When a rule or shortage list changes, see which workers and planned hires it could affect — only those findings are rechecked.

Daily readiness panel showing active HR reporting duties, per-pay-period salary checks, guidance-change impact and 1 January 2027 shortage-list exposure
Daily readiness panel from the demo workspace (fictional data).

Rehearsal scenarios

Compare what people say with what the rota really says.

Adult Social Care

Night shifts and multi-home rotas drift from CoS hours.

Hospitality

Split sites and seasonal hours change week to week.

Construction

Site moves, subcontracting chains, variable site rotas and bundled travel/lodging allowances — plus exposure to the 1 Jan 2027 TSL/ISL change.

Interview

Two accounts, one week

The AO says 37.5 hours. The worker describes regular extra nights. Both are recorded as separate claims.

Claim 01 · Attributed

Records

Rota against CoS

Rota exports and payslips are compared with the CoS baseline using your approved tolerance.

Check 02 · SW-HRS

Finding

+17% outside tolerance

A source-linked finding explains the gap in plain language, never as an accusation.

Finding 03 · High

Fix

Evidence closes it

Upload the overtime agreement or the change report. A reviewer decides, with a reason.

Decision 04 · Human
Clay illustration of documents under a magnifying glass, a checklist, scales weighing two statements, a pound coin and a calendar

One workspace, every source

Weigh every statement against the paperwork.

One workspace, a view for every role.

HR operator

Maintain workers, versioned evidence and start rehearsals.

Authorising Officer

Answer your assigned questions and view internal rehearsal completion.

Sponsored worker

Read the notice, answer your own questions — nothing else.

Reviewer / Admin

Decide findings, approve rule versions, manage users and audit.

Row-level access per employer and role

Every decision kept in an audit trail

Human-owned closure, always with evidence

Stories from real rehearsals

Trusted by employers who'd rather know first.

Design-partner feedback from care and hospitality sponsors using rehearsals to find and fix inconsistencies before a real visit. Names shown are illustrative.

Portrait of Hannah Ellery
01
We thought our files were tidy. The rehearsal showed our rota and the CoS disagreed on hours for two carers — we fixed it with evidence weeks before anyone asked.

Hannah Ellery

HR Lead, residential care group

4.9

Pilot programme

Priced per employer, shaped with you.

We're inviting sponsors in care, hospitality and construction to join our pilot. Pricing isn't fixed yet — the pilot helps us measure the real cost of preparation.

Designed with immigration compliance practitioners who have prepared sponsors for Home Office compliance visits.

Pilot partner

Pilot

Free during the pilot in exchange for structured feedback.

  • One employer workspace
  • Up to 5 sponsored workers
  • Guided rehearsals & findings
  • Preparedness report export
Apply for the pilot

Rehearsal review

Scoped

Software subscription plus an optional specialist-led review.

  • Everything in the pilot
  • Reviewer walkthrough of findings
  • Custom approved scenarios
  • Priority support
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