Mini-cab firms qualify to bring in migrants under ‘Skilled Workers’ scheme

List includes hundreds of halal and kebab shops, cafes, corner shops, and barbers

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Home Office licenses 118,000 firms as ‘sponsors of skilled workers’ into the UK

28,000 (80%) of all new applications were approved in Starmer’s first year in power

With pro-immigration organisations saying the UK needs to import ‘skilled workers’ to keep the country running, Stand for Our Sovereignty and Facts4EU can reveal the truth behind the Home Office’s scheme to approve dubious firms as ‘licensed sponsors’ of migrants entering the UK.

The research teams at Brexit Facts4EU and Stand for Our Sovereignty (SOS), one of the divisions of The Campaign for an Independent Britain (CIBUK), have once again delved deeply into Home Office records and have uncovered evidence of what appears to be widescale abuse of the UK’s generosity. This time it relates to a perfectly legal way for migrants to enter the UK in their thousands, as so-called ‘skilled workers’.

This report has been produced in association with our colleagues at GB News, and we recommend reading their additional information here.

A summary of the 'Skilled Workers' scheme
in four simple charts

1. The quadrupling in five years of the number of registered ‘sponsoring organisations’

2020-2025

Five years ago, the total number of organisations officially registered with the Home Office was c. 30,000. Since then, the rise has been inexorable. Today there are 118,000 of them, of all kinds. To be clear, these are organisations approved by the Home Office as sponsors of ‘skilled workers’, who then get visas to enter the country perfectly legally.

The extent to which these migrants are checked up on is not reported in any of the reports we were able to find, although of course there is an enforcement arm so it is possible that such records exist. Below is a chart showing the growth in numbers. These are the number of approved organisations not the number of migrants they have sponsored.

2. Number of new applications per quarter to become a ‘registered sponsor’ of a ‘skilled worker’

First 12 months under Starmer Government

2024 Q3 : 9,139
2024 Q4 : 8,887
2025 Q1 : 8,499
2025 Q2: 8,664
TOTAL : 35,189

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3. Approval rate for new applications

First 12 months under Starmer Government

As can be seen, there is an almost 80% chance of being approved as a Home Office registered sponsor of skilled workers.

Total applications : 35,189
Total approved : 28,019
Success rate : 79.6%

4. Unusual sponsoring organisations for ‘skilled workers’

Data correct as at October 2025

One of the spreadsheets the Home Office keeps but does not publish as part of its usual quarterly output is a list of the 118,000 organisations it has approved as sponsors of skilled workers.

The Stand for Our Sovereignty’s and Facts4EU team’s analysis included a review of this very long list. We found some unusual looking names, and started counting names like these. Our only caveat is that it is of course possible that a company called ABC Mini-Cabs Ltd (a made-up example) is not in fact a business providing mini-cabs for short journeys. We have proceeded on the assumption, however, that there is a reasonable chance that this might indeed be their form of business.

With that caveat in mind, here are the approximate numbers we found.

Observations

This report does of course raise many questions. For example, who decides what is a ‘skilled worker’? Who decides which workers the country is in desperate need of? If it turns out that the country is dire need of ‘Rear-Reversing Sprocket Joint Shunters & Fitters’, are visas simply issued or does anyone communicate that there’s clearly a training need for such individuals?

A good example of the latter are nurses. Some years ago it was decided by someone that nursing should become a degree-only profession. Even nurses with many years’ experience found their promotion line blocked (or at least seriously impaired) if they did not have a degree, regardless of whether their patients thought they were the best nurse they had ever had.

Cue an influx of nurses from abroad, many of inferior standard in terms of nursing skills and a great many of whom were almost impossible to understand, as their English was so poor. Meanwhile we apparently have a limit on the number of nurse training places on courses in the UK and applicants are being turned away.

It is our opinion that far more effort and resources should be put into training up those from our existing population before any consideration is given to importing people from abroad. Aside from anything else, we have an enormous number of young people who are currently not in training, education or employment. This is a pool of talent that must be attacked with urgency.

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Reader Comments 8

1. Old Albion , Thursday, October 09, 2025, 06:53:

The UK currently has between 1.5 - 2.0 million unemployed.
Surely that number includes many who could be trained to do the relatively simple tasks illustrated here.
Surely that would be a sensible approach, rather than importing more people.
Surely it's so bleedin' obvious that even Starmer could understand it.

2. Ashley Great Britain , Thursday, October 09, 2025, 07:03:

My post No2 from yesterday's article fits in with this one.
Why on earth should nurses suddenly need a degree. Why on earth should police applicants either. It appears a degree requirement is being used as a blocker, and a way to ensure that only applicants that have been through the university system can apply. Those that have had a very large dose of woke ideology massaged into their heads.
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Why would the government choose to allow non professional businesses and organisations to import their own false Labour.
There's just so so much that is going wrong and the British people can see it.

3. Mr Sceptic , Thursday, October 09, 2025, 07:09:

For Brexiteers in the Tory Party, Brexit became a victory for the UK’s relationship with the Commonwealth, and a signal to deepen ties with countries like India, Pakistan, and Nigeria.
Facts4EU has also championed deepening relations with the Commonwealth after Brexit.
Loosening visa rules and expanding opportunities for migration from Commonwealth nations became cornerstones of Priti Patel and Suella Braverman’s tenures.

4. Sparky , Thursday, October 09, 2025, 07:11:

This piece about Halall and taxi drivers is based on assumptions and lack of information.
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However the point about nurses or doctors is good. It takes 3 or 4 years to train a nurse and 6, 7 or 8 years to train a doctor. The fact we are relying on immigration to fill these spaces is a sad indictment on the government in power between 5 and 10 years ago.
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The Govt was probably so focused on Brexit they forgot about managing the NHS.

5. Robert Mcdonald , Thursday, October 09, 2025, 10:31:

The worst legacy from the bliar broon days (and there are plenty bad decisions to choose from) was bliars rant about education, education, education. He hadn't the wisdom to focus on technical skill based training. As a result we have a range of university courses that lead nowhere in the real world. Creative writing ! Plenty of it on here though.

6. KB , Thursday, October 09, 2025, 11:02:

Surely there should be some comment on here about the EU proposal for 50% import tariff on UK steel ?
Will this break the TCA, and if so does it mean we can break it now ?

7. Gazzablack , Thursday, October 09, 2025, 12:03:

4, sparkless
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When you see the legend "source: the Home Office" then you an rest assured that it is researched and isn't an "assumption"

8. Gazzablack , Thursday, October 09, 2025, 15:33:

6, KB.
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Not likely from Labour.
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TwoTier has run off to foreign climes again, this time to India.
Presumably to avoid inconvenient questions regarding EU steel tariffs, and collapsed Chinese spy trials.
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Meanwhile in the EU
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Chemicals and elements used in 90% of hot water tanks have been left out of the list of approved items for use in water systems in the EU.
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Almost like they don't know what they're doing isn't it?.
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Hungary will NOT adopt the Euro. It's given an emphatic no.
Hungary is treaty bound to adopt the Euro as part of the terms of it's membership, so it will be interesting to see how the EU responds.
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The Slovak parliament has just adopted a historic amendment.
From now on, national law will take priority over EU law.
But!!!! As an EU member EU law takes primacy over national law.
That's not optional.
So either this "amendment" is just theatre to be ignored, or Slovakia will have to leave the EU.
There's no middle ground here.

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