UK Visa Sponsor Job Filter — Tarve

About

Tarve helps UK-bound job seekers identify which job postings come from employers holding a Skilled Worker visa sponsor licence and whether the salary meets the Home Office immigration threshold. The verdict is shown as a small colour-coded chip on the job page itself, so you can see whether to apply before you have even read the job description.


WHO TARVE IS FOR

If you need a UK Skilled Worker visa to work in the UK, every job application starts with the same two questions: "Will this employer sponsor my visa?" and "Does the salary clear the Home Office threshold?" Get either wrong and the application is wasted — most UK employers do not hold a sponsor licence, and not every licensed company can sponsor roles below the salary minimum.

Built for:
  • International graduates on the Graduate Route transitioning to long-term work visas
  • Existing Skilled Worker visa holders changing jobs
  • Health and Care Worker visa applicants
  • Job seekers applying from outside the UK
  • Dependent partners on family visas exploring switching to a work route
  • Recent graduates approaching the end of post-study work


WHAT THE EXTENSION DOES

A small draggable badge appears on every supported job posting page. The badge colour tells you the verdict at a glance:

  ✅ Green — Licensed UK sponsor (verified against the Home Office Register of Licensed Sponsors)
  🟢 Lime — Likely a licensed sponsor (high-confidence trading-name or parent-group match)
  🟡 Amber — Possible match, verify (similar name to a licensed sponsor)
  ❌ Red — Not on the sponsor register
  🔵 Brand blue — Sign in to check

Click the badge to open a preview card. It shows:
  • The job title and employer as detected from the page
  • The matched legal company name on the Home Office register
  • The sponsor licence type (Worker or Temporary Worker) and rating (A or B)
  • A salary chip — green if the listed pay clears the Skilled Worker minimum; red if below
  • The data source and the date the register was last refreshed
  • A button to save the role to your job tracker for follow-up


THE THREE CHECKS

SPONSOR LICENCE
The employer name on the page is cross-referenced against the Home Office's public "Register of Licensed Sponsors: Workers and Temporary Workers" — the same dataset a Home Office case-worker uses. The match handles company-name variation: trading names versus registered names, "Ltd" versus "Limited", common typos, sub-brand versus parent group.

SALARY THRESHOLD
The salary on the page is parsed (currencies, "per annum", "OTE", "pro rata", ranges, hourly rates) and compared against the current Skilled Worker minimums, including SOC-code-specific going rates, the Immigration Salary List discount tier, the Health and Care Worker visa floor, and the New Entrant Route threshold.

JOB-PAGE DETECTION
The chip only renders on actual job posting pages. Category pages, employer landing pages, and search-result pages are skipped so the verdict appears only where it is useful.


SUPPORTED SITES

The extension supports major UK job boards and the standard career-page applicant-tracking platforms used by most UK employers. The full host list is declared in the extension manifest and shown at install time. If a site is not supported, the popup form lets you save a job manually.


THE DATA BEHIND THE VERDICT

Sponsor licence results come from the UK Home Office's public Register of Licensed Sponsors, refreshed weekly. A company that loses its licence stops showing as licensed within seven days.

Salary thresholds track the current Home Office guidance for the Skilled Worker route, the Immigration Salary List, the Health and Care Worker route, and the New Entrant scheme. When the government changes a threshold, the extension updates within 24 hours.

The extension does not predict the future or claim a company will sponsor any specific role. It reports publicly verifiable facts: whether the employer holds a current sponsor licence and whether the listed salary clears the Home Office floor. The decision to apply is yours.


PRIVACY

Three pieces of information are read from job pages you visit:

  1. The job title
  2. The employer or company name
  3. The salary string (if shown on the page)

Those three fields are sent over TLS to api.tarve.co.uk so the sponsor lookup and salary check can run. The extension does not read URLs as content, job descriptions, profile sidebars, direct messages, or anything else outside the job posting.

There is no third-party analytics or advertising tracking. The extension does not sell or share user data. Full privacy policy: https://tarve.co.uk/privacy

Authentication tokens (issued after sign-in) are stored locally in chrome.storage.local. Tokens are never synced to a Google account or sent anywhere other than api.tarve.co.uk.


PRICING

Free tier: 10 sponsor checks and 10 salary checks per day. No credit card required.

Pro tier: £14.99 a month for unlimited checks plus the Tarve web app — a job-application tracker, CV storage, salary-history graphs, and AI-powered CV review.


COMMON QUESTIONS

Is the sponsor verdict guaranteed to be correct?
No software can guarantee a sponsor verdict. The check is against the Home Office's public register, which is updated weekly. A recently-licensed or recently-revoked employer may not match the current snapshot. Always confirm directly with the employer before applying for a Certificate of Sponsorship.

Why does the extension not tell me if I will be offered the job?
Because that decision belongs to the employer. The extension narrows the field by ruling out companies that physically cannot sponsor a Skilled Worker visa. Whether a sponsor-licensed company will sponsor a specific applicant for a specific role is case-by-case.

Which visa types does the check cover?
The Skilled Worker route, Health and Care Worker, Senior or Specialist Worker, and the broader Worker and Temporary Worker sponsor licence categories. It does not cover Student, Graduate, or other non-work routes.

My company is not on the register but says they can sponsor. Why?
The Home Office register only lists companies licensed for the Worker and Temporary Worker routes. Some companies sponsor only Student visas, which is on a separate register. Others may have applied recently and not yet been published. Ask the employer for their Sponsor Licence Number to verify directly with UK Visas and Immigration.

Can I report an incorrect verdict?
Yes. Every chip preview card has a "Report incorrect" link that emails the team. Matching logic is updated when patterns appear in feedback.


GET STARTED

Click "Add to Chrome", sign in via the popup, and open any supported job posting. The badge appears within a few seconds. Click it to see the verdict.

Feedback or questions: [email protected]