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Licensed to sponsor the Skilled Worker route from Ballymena, according to the Home Office register.
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Claim this pageJ.F. & H. Dowds Limited is a private limited company (Companies House number NI032483), incorporated in June 1997, with its registered office in Ballymena. Companies House lists its business as construction of commercial buildings. 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 November 2025.
From Companies House and the Home Office register of licensed sponsors, checked 22 Oct 2026.
On the register since November 2025, the earliest copy of the register we have that lists it. No changes to its licence since then.
Built by comparing daily copies of the Home Office register from January 2023.
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Yes. J.F. & H. Dowds Limited 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 J.F. & H. Dowds Limited for one route: Skilled Worker (A rating).
J.F. & H. Dowds Limited has been on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors since November 2025, the first copy of the register that lists it.
J.F. & H. Dowds Limited is registered with Companies House under company number NI032483, with its registered office in Ballymena.
The register lists J.F. & H. Dowds Limited with an A rating on the Skilled Worker route.
Companies House lists J.F. & H. Dowds Limited under construction of commercial buildings.
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1 other licensed sponsor in Ballymena has the same industry code: construction of commercial buildings (41201).