Visa sponsorship jobs, checked before you apply

Every employer matched against the government’s own sponsor register — UK, Netherlands and Ireland

Every year millions of skilled people apply abroad and never hear back — often because the employer could never have sponsored them in the first place. In the UK, the Netherlands and Ireland we match the employer against the government's own sponsor register, so you can see who can genuinely hire you before you spend a week on the application. Those three are where the board has real depth, because they are the only countries publishing anything checkable. For everywhere else there is a guide to how sponsorship actually works there, and a role is listed only when the advert states it outright.

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How verification works on this board

Most job boards that advertise “visa sponsorship” simply match the phrase in a job advert and hope. We check the employer's name against the government's own list of licensed sponsors, so you stop spending weeks on applications that were never going to work. There are live roles on this board right now, refreshed daily.

Register verified means the employer appears on the UK Home Office Register of Licensed Sponsors or the Dutch IND Public Register of Recognised Sponsors. It confirms the company holds a sponsor licence. It is not a promise that this particular role will be sponsored — that is always the employer's decision.
Employer states sponsorship is the weaker label. Germany, Canada, Australia, the United States and most other countries publish no live register of sponsoring employers, so the only available evidence is the advert itself saying sponsorship is offered. We label those differently rather than pretending the evidence is equivalent.

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How a job gets onto this board

Roles are read directly from the employer's own applicant tracking system — Greenhouse, Lever or Ashby. Nothing is scraped from LinkedIn or Indeed, so every listing is first-hand and the apply button goes to the real application page. The employer name is then matched against the government register, and only an exact match earns the verified badge; near-misses are rejected on purpose, because a wrong sponsorship claim costs you an application. Finally, any posting that explicitly says sponsorship is unavailable is dropped, even when the company holds a licence — a licence covers the company, not necessarily the vacancy.

Common questions

What does “register verified” actually mean?

The employer's name was matched against the official government register of licensed visa sponsors. It confirms the company holds a sponsor licence. It does not guarantee this specific role is open to sponsorship: licences can cover only some teams or seniority levels, and the decision is always the employer's.

Can I apply directly from AlterCV?

No, and we would rather say so than fake it. Applicant tracking systems only accept applications submitted with the employer's own credentials, so no third-party site can genuinely submit on your behalf. The apply button opens the employer's real application page. What we can do is tailor your CV to the role before you go — that button hands the job description straight to the AlterCV editor.

How current are these listings?

Job feeds are re-read every day, and roles that disappear from an employer's feed are removed within about three days. The government sponsor registers are re-downloaded roughly weekly — the UK publishes a fresh file most working days.

I know a company that sponsors but isn't listed. Why?

Either it doesn't publish a public job feed on one of the systems we read, or its registered legal name differs from its trading name — “Stripe Payments UK Ltd” versus “Stripe”, for example — in which case we decline to guess. Coverage grows as more employers are added.

Before you apply — the numbers that decide it

A sponsored application turns on salary thresholds and whether the employer can sponsor at all. These are kept current and dated, because a stale threshold is worse than no threshold.

UK Skilled Worker salary threshold 2026 Why £41,700 is a floor, not the answer — and how the going rate for your occupation code decides. Which European countries actually sponsor Three publish a list you can check. The rest do not, and it changes how you should search. How to find sponsorship jobs without wasting months Verify first, ask in one sentence, target the shortage occupations. Germany: Opportunity Card vs EU Blue Card One needs a job offer. One lets you arrive without one. Netherlands & Ireland thresholds 2026 €5,942 by age band, and Ireland’s 1 March rise to €40,904. Writing a CV when you need sponsorship You are asking for cost and delay. That changes what belongs on page one.