How we source and check what we publish

The sponsor register

The licence facts on our company, city and sector pages come from one source: the Home Office register of licensed sponsors: workers, published on gov.uk under the Open Government Licence v3.0. That covers each organisation's name, town, county, the visa routes its licence covers and its licence rating.

• How it is copied. An automated job runs every day at 02:02 UTC. It asks gov.uk for the current register file, downloads it and reads it. The job stops, leaving the previous copy in place, if the file's columns are not the ones expected, if it holds fewer than 80,000 rows, or if the town or route columns look wrong. If a run fails or does not happen, our monitoring alerts us.
• Removals. The Home Office records a removal by dropping the row, so an organisation missing from the new file is removed from our copy in the same run. If a single run would remove more than 20% of the register, the removals are held back and we are alerted, because that is more likely a broken file than a real change. Once an organisation has left the register, its page stops showing it as licensed.
• Counts. We count organisations, not register rows: an employer listed under several routes or towns is one organisation. Where our copy rounds a count, it rounds down, so the figure never claims more than the register holds.
• What a licence means. A licence means an employer can sponsor eligible roles. It does not mean every role it advertises comes with sponsorship, and the register does not say which roles do. Every page says this and links to gov.uk so you can check the entry yourself.
• Sectors. The register does not record what an organisation does. Our sector pages judge it from the organisation's name, using a set of rules and an AI check, and keep a sector only where the two agree or the check is confident. An organisation with an ambiguous name can sit in the wrong sector or in none, and each sector page says the sector was judged from the name.

Register change reports

The Home Office replaces the register file rather than keeping a public history of it. Our register change reports compare two dated copies of the file to show what moved.

• Each copy is identified by a checksum of its exact bytes, from an Internet Archive capture of the gov.uk file or a copy we took from gov.uk ourselves. The build refuses a file whose checksum does not match, and stops if the totals do not reconcile.
• A removal is reported as a removal, never as a revocation, because the register does not give a reason.
• Companies House statuses quoted for removed organisations are dated to the day they were checked, and can change after that.

Graduate programme verdicts

Our programme pages answer one question for each graduate scheme, internship, placement or apprenticeship: will it sponsor a visa? We hold 2,320 programme records across 1,399 employers, each based on the employer's own published pages or another primary source.

• Four verdicts, one of them “no published policy”. A programme either sponsors, sponsors only some tracks or offices, does not sponsor, or has no published policy. When an employer says nothing, the verdict says so rather than guessing.
• The employer's own words. A firm verdict carries a quote from the employer that is about the question: sponsorship or visas, or, for a nationality, residency or security clearance bar, who is eligible. Before a new record is added, a script rejects it if its quote is not about that question, if a “does not sponsor” verdict quotes the employer offering sponsorship, if it rests on an archived copy of a page or on another website's summary rather than a primary source, or if it is missing a source, a date or, for a negative verdict, a reason. Automated tests check that every record in the dataset has a source and a checked date.
• A second check on quotes. Quotes describing recruitment stages are fetched again by a separate script, which confirms each one is on the page it cites before it reaches the dataset.
• What could not be verified stays out. Employers whose pages we could not verify are recorded separately, with the reason, rather than given a guessed entry. We use AI tools to help gather this research, which is why nothing is published on a researcher's word: it has to pass the checks above.
• Dates and sources on the page. Every programme page shows when its verdict was last checked, when its application dates were last checked where that differs, and a link to every source. Where we can match the employer to the Home Office register by name, the page links to that entry too.

Visa figures and rules

The Skilled Worker salary calculator and the UK work visa checker apply published rules to what you enter. They hold no figures of their own.

• Salary figures. The general Skilled Worker threshold and the going rates for 270 occupation codes (SOC 2020) come from gov.uk, from the going-rates table published 22 July 2025. They were last verified against gov.uk on 23 October 2026, and that date is printed on both tools.
• Route rules. The Graduate route, Skilled Worker, the Youth Mobility Scheme and Student work rights were read from the Immigration Rules on 8 September 2026. Routes we have not checked end to end are named with a link to gov.uk and no eligibility logic.
• A weekly check. Every Monday at 07:15 UTC, an automated check re-reads the gov.uk pages behind these figures. It alerts us if the general threshold, the discounted floors, the going-rates table's date or its number of rows has changed, or if it cannot read a page at all, so a broken check is never mistaken for “nothing changed”. The check does not move the verified date; that changes only when the figures are re-checked and updated.

Live roles and sponsorship labels

Where a public page mentions live roles at licensed sponsors, they come from employers' own careers sites, which we read daily. In Job Match, where roles also come from job boards, a role is labelled as sponsoring a visa only when its advert says so. If the advert is silent and the employer holds a licence, it is labelled as a licensed sponsor, which is not the same thing; if the advert rules sponsorship out, the label says the role does not sponsor.

Guides

• Our guides are written by the GoRizzume team. Most carry the team's name; a guide written by a named person carries theirs.
• Every guide shows when it was published and, if it has been edited since, the date of the last update.
• Guides that state a visa rule or threshold describe published rules in general. Check the figure on gov.uk before you rely on it, and see information, not immigration advice below.
• Our Hindi and Mandarin translations are checked automatically against the English original: every figure in the original must appear in the translation and none may be added, so a number cannot change in translation.

Figures about GoRizzume itself

Numbers we state about our own product and data, such as the size of the register or the average first score on the free CV scan, are read from our own data wherever a page can do that, rather than typed into the copy. Where a register count is written into copy, it is rounded down. We keep an internal register of every public marketing claim we make, the evidence behind it and who is responsible for keeping it true; a change that makes a claim false has to change the copy at the same time.

How often each is updated

Sponsor register, and the company, city and sector pages built from it

Copied every day at 02:02 UTC.

On the page: the date the page was last checked against the register.

Live roles on employers' own careers sites

Read daily.

On the page: a count of live roles, where there are any.

Visa salary figures and route rules

Verified against gov.uk on the date shown, and re-read by an automated check every Monday at 07:15 UTC.

On the page: the verification date, on both visa tools.

Graduate programme verdicts and application dates

Re-checked against the employer's pages in research passes, with no fixed schedule.

On the page: the date the verdict and, separately, the dates were last checked.

Register change reports

Each edition compares two dated copies of the register.

On the page: the publication date, and the date of any correction.

Guides

Written and edited by the GoRizzume team.

On the page: the publication date, and the date of the last edit when there is one.

Corrections

If something on GoRizzume is wrong, tell us through the contact page or at support@gorizzume.co.uk. Include the page address and, where you can, a link to the source that shows the right answer.

• Register entries. If our copy differs from the gov.uk register, we fix our copy. If the register itself is wrong, only the Home Office can change it.
• Programme verdicts. If a verdict no longer matches what the employer publishes, we re-check the employer's page and update the record, and the page then shows the new checked date.
• Guides. A corrected guide shows the date it was updated.
• Register change reports. A corrected edition shows the date of the correction.

Independence, and what we will not publish

• GoRizzume is independent. It is not affiliated with the Home Office, the Immigration Advice Authority or the employers whose licences and programmes it describes.
• We do not publish a review or testimonial we cannot trace to a real person who agreed to be quoted.
• We do not promise outcomes. Nothing here can tell you that you will get a job or a visa.
• On our data pages, every figure comes from the register, an employer's own pages, gov.uk or our own data, and the page says which.

Information, not immigration advice

Everything on GoRizzume is general information about published rules and public data. It is not immigration advice and creates no adviser relationship. Section 82 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 defines immigration advice, and section 84 allows only a qualified person to give it, such as an adviser regulated by the Immigration Advice Authority. GoRizzume is not regulated by the Immigration Advice Authority.

Our tools apply published rules to what you enter. They cannot see your full history, and real cases have exceptions they cannot model. Before a decision that matters, check gov.uk and find a regulated immigration adviser.

Who publishes GoRizzume

GoRizzume is a product of Augustova Limited, company number 17216706, registered office Office 1856, 60 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 2EW, United Kingdom. More about us is on the about page, and how we handle personal data is in the privacy policy.