Removed from the register
Was licensed to sponsor the Skilled Worker route from Swindon, according to the Home Office register.
It is no longer on the Home Office register (removed 29 Dec 2025), so it cannot sponsor anyone.
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3 of 328 licensed sponsors here have job ads we’ve matched to the register. Similar work first.
The Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, £32,073 to £39,043, posted 30 Oct 2026
The Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, £25,272, posted 28 Oct 2026
New College Swindon, £40,032 to £44,475, posted 26 Oct 2026
Openwork Services Limited, posted 15 Oct 2026
Openwork Services Limited, posted 7 Oct 2026
New College Swindon, £44,474, posted 7 Oct 2026
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WH Smith Retail Holdings Limited is a private limited company (Companies House number 00471941), incorporated in August 1949, with its registered office in Wiltshire. Companies House lists its business as activities of head offices.
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From the Home Office register of licensed sponsors and Companies House, checked 22 Dec 2025.
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Not at the moment. WH Smith Retail Holdings Limited is no longer on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors, so it cannot assign new certificates of sponsorship.
No. Its sponsor licence is not active on the Home Office register.
When it was last on the register, WH Smith Retail Holdings Limited was licensed for Skilled Worker (A rating).
WH Smith Retail Holdings Limited was first seen on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors in January 2025. We have no copy of the register for the time before that, so it may have been listed earlier. It was removed in December 2025.
WH Smith Retail Holdings Limited is registered with Companies House under company number 00471941, with its registered office in Wiltshire.
The register listed WH Smith Retail Holdings Limited with an A rating on the Skilled Worker route.
Companies House lists WH Smith Retail Holdings Limited under activities of head offices.
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First seen on the register in January 2025. We have no copy of the register for the time before that, so it may have been listed earlier. The register shows 1 change to its licence since then: 1 removal from the register. 1 of them in the last 12 months.
The date of each change, how long each rating lasted and a chart of the licence are in the employer check.
Built by comparing daily copies of the Home Office register from January 2023.
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How long the certificate of sponsorship (CoS) took, what the interview was like, whether they paid the visa fee.
Yes. It sponsored workers in 2024.
That is fewer than in 2024.
It sponsored workers in 1 different job in 2024 or 2025.
1 of them has been closed to new Skilled Worker applicants from outside the UK since 22 July 2025.
From Home Office figures on certificates of sponsorship, which an employer gives each worker it sponsors.