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Claim this pageBARKAT FOOD STORE BLACKBURN LTD is a private limited company (Companies House number 08435003), incorporated in March 2013, with its registered office in Blackburn. Companies House lists its business as retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating. It is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors for the Skilled Worker route with an A rating. It has been on the register since April 2023.
From Companies House and the Home Office register of licensed sponsors, checked 22 Oct 2026.
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Yes. BARKAT FOOD STORE BLACKBURN LTD is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors for the Skilled Worker route.
It holds an active sponsor licence for the Skilled Worker route. Whether a particular role is sponsored is up to the employer; the licence only means it is allowed to.
The register lists BARKAT FOOD STORE BLACKBURN LTD for one route: Skilled Worker (A rating).
BARKAT FOOD STORE BLACKBURN LTD has been on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors since April 2023, the first copy of the register that lists it.
BARKAT FOOD STORE BLACKBURN LTD is registered with Companies House under company number 08435003, with its registered office in Blackburn.
The register lists BARKAT FOOD STORE BLACKBURN LTD with an A rating on the Skilled Worker route.
Companies House lists BARKAT FOOD STORE BLACKBURN LTD under retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating.
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On the register since April 2023, the earliest copy of the register we have that lists it. No changes to its licence since then.
We have no copy of the register between June 2024 and January 2025, so changes in that time show as a range.
Built by comparing daily copies of the Home Office register from January 2023.
8 other licensed sponsors in Blackburn have the same industry code: retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating (47110).