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.

Tom Brett Young and Anna Blackden will chair the conference with Jacqueline Amos, Head of Study Services at the UKVI attending as our Key Note Speaker. Joe Middleton, Kings Counsel and barrister from Doughty Street Chambers is also a guest speaker along with highly experienced immigration practitioners in the field of student sponsorship as further detailed in the agenda below.

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM Registration and Networking Breakfast

10:00 AM – 10:05 AM Chairs’ Welcome (Tom Brett Young, VWV Solicitors and Anna Blackden, Doyle Clayton Solicitors)

10:05 AM – 10:45 AM Applying for and Maintaining a Student Sponsor Licence (Julie Moktadir, Stone King Solicitors)

10:45 AM – 11:30 AM Home Office Compliance Visits (and Student Sponsor Duties) (Nichola Carter, Carter Thomas Solicitors)

11:30 AM – 11:45 AM  Coffee Break

11:45 AM – 12:30 PM Child Student and Student Visa Applications (Esyllt Beagrie, Eversheds Sutherlands Solicitors)

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Lunch Break

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM Key Note Speaker and Q&A (Jacqueline Amos, Head of Study Services, UKVI)

2:30 PM – 3:15 PM Sponsoring U18’s and Safeguarding (Tom Brett Young, VWV Solicitors)

3:15 PM – 3:30 PM Coffee Break

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Home Office Enforcement Action (Strengthening Sponsor Compliance and Challenging Licence Revocations) (Anna Blackden, Doyle Clayton Solicitors and Joe Middleton, KC, Doughty Street Chambers)

4:30 PM – 5:00 PM Panel Discussion and Q&A