--- title: "API Foilmakers: UK sponsor licence status" canonical: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/api-foilmakers-livingston-793912 register_status: active register_as_of: 2026-10-30 publisher: Borderless (https://www.getborderless.co.uk) source: UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors (Open Government Licence v3); Companies House --- # API Foilmakers: UK sponsor licence status > As of 30 October 2026, API Foilmakers (Companies House SC655194, Livingston) holds an A-rated Worker sponsor licence covering the Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker route and has appeared on the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors since 13 November 2020 (source: Borderless, from the GOV.UK register of licensed sponsors and Companies House). ## Key facts - Register status: Active: on the current register and licensed to sponsor workers - Licence type and rating: Worker (A rating) - Visa routes: Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker - First seen on the register: 13 November 2020 - Legal name: API TRANSFER TECHNOLOGIES LTD - Industry: Manufacturing & Industrial - Town: Livingston - Registered address: 50 Lothian Road, Festival Square, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH3 9WJ - Companies House number: SC655194 (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SC655194) - Website: https://apifoilmakers.com/ - Register data as of: 30 October 2026 (GOV.UK register of licensed sponsors, re-read daily) - Web page: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/api-foilmakers-livingston-793912 ## Where this sponsor sits - One of 88 licensed sponsors in Livingston: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/in/livingston - One of 8,077 in Manufacturing & Industrial: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/industry/manufacturing-industrial - Among 10,782 Global Business Mobility sponsors: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/route/global-business-mobility ## Companies House changes since it joined the register 10 changes worth checking, checked 26 October 2026, newest first: - 16 Oct 2026: Director resigned: FLORIANO, Francesco. Director change recorded on 16 Oct 2026. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. The 20-working-day window runs to about 13 Nov 2026. - 16 Oct 2026: Director resigned: GILMOUR, Kenneth Mackinlay. Director change recorded on 16 Oct 2026. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. The 20-working-day window runs to about 13 Nov 2026. - 16 Oct 2026: New director appointed: STORY, John Douglas Whitfield. Director change recorded on 16 Oct 2026. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. The 20-working-day window runs to about 13 Nov 2026. - 16 Oct 2026: New director appointed: BENNETT, Shaun Morrison. Director change recorded on 16 Oct 2026. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. The 20-working-day window runs to about 13 Nov 2026. - 1 Apr 2025: Director resigned: OLDHAM, William George. Director change recorded on 1 Apr 2025. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 10 Feb 2025: Company name changed, now trading as "API TRANSFER TECHNOLOGIES LTD". Company name change recorded on 10 Feb 2025. If this is the organisation named on your sponsor licence, the new name must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 12 Jan 2023: New director appointed: GILMOUR, Kenneth Mackinlay. Director change recorded on 12 Jan 2023. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 12 Aug 2021: Notification of Aldus Holdings (Uk) Limited as a person with significant control. New majority owner or controller recorded on 12 Aug 2021. If control of your organisation has passed to a new owner, the licence does not transfer automatically, and a new licence application may be needed within 20 working days. - 12 Aug 2021: Cessation of Mr Nicholas William Moore as a person with significant control. Change to people with significant control recorded on 12 Aug 2021. If this changes who owns or controls your organisation, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 12 Aug 2021: Director resigned: MOORE, Nicholas William. Director change recorded on 12 Aug 2021. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. Companies House cannot show who holds the licence roles or whether a change was reported to the Home Office, so these are prompts to check against your own records, not findings. ## Sponsored jobs No listings matched yet. Job listings are harvested daily from Reed, Adzuna, Jooble and Careerjet and matched back to the register by employer name. ## Common questions about API Foilmakers ### Is API Foilmakers a licensed UK visa sponsor? Yes. API Foilmakers in Livingston is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors under this name since 2020. It can sponsor workers from overseas, but not every job it advertises comes with sponsorship. ### What visa routes can API Foilmakers sponsor? API Foilmakers is licensed for Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker. Its licence rating on the register is "Worker (A rating)". ### Where is API Foilmakers based? The register lists API Foilmakers at 50 Lothian Road, Festival Square, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH3 9WJ. This is usually the head office; the job itself may be somewhere else. ### How current is this information? This page uses the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors, as published on 30 October 2026, and Companies House records for company number SC655194. We update it daily. Always confirm a licence status on GOV.UK. ## About this data - Source register: UK Home Office, Register of Licensed Sponsors (Workers), https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-of-licensed-sponsors-workers (Open Government Licence v3). GOV.UK is authoritative; confirm there before relying on a licence status. - Company records: Companies House, https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/ - Published by Borderless (https://www.getborderless.co.uk), an OISC-regulated UK immigration provider. This is public register data, not legal advice. - "First seen on the register" is when this organisation first appeared in our data, not the official licence grant date. - Web page: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/api-foilmakers-livingston-793912 - This fact sheet: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/api-foilmakers-livingston-793912.md - Site overview for AI agents: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/llms.txt - Something wrong? Request a correction from the web page and the Borderless team will check it.