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Licensed to sponsor the Skilled Worker route and 1 other from Southampton, according to the Home Office register.
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Claim this pageQioptiq Photonics Limited is a private limited company (Companies House number 16424994), incorporated in May 2025, with its registered office in Hamble. Companies House lists its business as manufacture of non-electronic measuring, testing etc. equipment, not for industrial process control. It is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors for the Skilled Worker (A rating) and Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker (A rating) routes. It was first seen on the register in January 2023. Our copies of the register start then, so it may have been listed earlier.
From Companies House and the Home Office register of licensed sponsors, checked 22 Oct 2026.
Earlier names from the Companies House record.
First seen on the register in January 2023. Our copies of the register start then, so it may have been listed earlier. 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.
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Yes. Qioptiq Photonics Limited is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors for the Skilled Worker and Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker routes.
It holds an active sponsor licence for the Skilled Worker and Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker routes. Whether a particular role is sponsored is up to the employer; the licence only means it is allowed to.
The register lists Qioptiq Photonics Limited for 2 routes: Skilled Worker (A rating) and Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker (A rating).
Qioptiq Photonics Limited was first seen on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors in January 2023. Our copies of the register start then, so it may have been listed earlier.
Qioptiq Photonics Limited is registered with Companies House under company number 16424994, with its registered office in Hamble.
The register gives a rating for each route: Skilled Worker (A rating) and Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker (A rating).
Companies House lists Qioptiq Photonics Limited under manufacture of non-electronic measuring, testing etc. equipment, not for industrial process control.
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