WEB 3080 ILPA Student Sponsors Conference (In-person)

We invite you to attend ILPA’s first Student Sponsors Conference, hosted as a hybrid event. This all day conference will take place in person at Friends House in London and online via Zoom. The conference, created by education immigration law experts Tom Brett Young, Anna Blackden and Nichola Carter, will examine the Immigration Rules and Home Office Policy Guidance relating to the sponsorship of international students in the UK. The conference will be aimed principally at student sponsorship in independent schools, colleges and pathway providers. However, those working at or advising higher education providers holding a student sponsor licence (and who recruit from pathway providers) would also find the content useful. The agenda is set out below. Tom Brett Young and Anna Blackden will chair the conference and there will be an array of guest speakers, including Tom, Anna and Nichola, with more to be announced in due course.

• Chairs’ Welcome: Tom Brett Young, VWV Solicitors and Anna Blackden, Doyle Clayton Solicitors
• Key Note Speaker and Q&A
• Applying for and Maintaining a Student Sponsor Licence
• Home Office Compliance Visits and Sponsor Duties
• Child Student and Student Visa Applications
• Sponsoring U18’s and Safeguarding
• Home Office Enforcement Action – Strengthening Sponsor Compliance and Challenging Licence Revocations
• Panel Discussion and Q&A