--- title: "Brother International Europe LTD: UK sponsor licence status" canonical: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/brother-international-europe-ltd-manchester-798214 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 --- # Brother International Europe LTD: UK sponsor licence status > As of 30 October 2026, Brother International Europe LTD (Companies House 00664172, Manchester) holds an A-rated Worker sponsor licence covering the Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker and Skilled Worker routes, and has appeared on the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors since at least 4 August 2013 (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; Skilled Worker - First seen on the register: 4 August 2013 or earlier - Legal name: BROTHER INTERNATIONAL EUROPE LIMITED - Industry: Technology & Software - Town: Manchester - Registered address: Brother House, 1 Tame Street, Audenshaw, Manchester, M34 5JE - Companies House number: 00664172 (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00664172) - 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/brother-international-europe-ltd-manchester-798214 ## Where this sponsor sits - One of 2,872 licensed sponsors in Manchester: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/in/manchester - One of 15,391 in Technology & Software: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/industry/technology-software - 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 24 changes worth checking, checked 26 October 2026, newest first: - 16 Jun 2026: Director resigned: OSAWA, Toru. Director change recorded on 16 Jun 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. - 31 Mar 2025: Director resigned: NOJI, Isao. Director change recorded on 31 Mar 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. - 1 Apr 2024: New director appointed: OTA, Hisashi. Director change recorded on 1 Apr 2024. 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. - 6 Jun 2023: Director resigned: YAMADA, Takeshi. Director change recorded on 6 Jun 2023. 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. - 6 Jun 2023: New director appointed: SEO, Takeshi. Director change recorded on 6 Jun 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. - 17 Jun 2022: New director appointed: OSAWA, Toru. Director change recorded on 17 Jun 2022. 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. - 17 Jun 2022: Director resigned: METCALFE, Ian Desmond. Director change recorded on 17 Jun 2022. 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. - 17 Jun 2022: New director appointed: MARSHALL, Chris. Director change recorded on 17 Jun 2022. 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. - 1 Apr 2020: Director resigned: KACHI, Hiroyuki. Director change recorded on 1 Apr 2020. 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. - 18 Mar 2019: New shares issued (allotment). Share capital filing recorded on 18 Mar 2019. No new majority owner was notified, so this is usually routine. If it did pass a controlling interest to someone new, the licence does not transfer automatically, and a new licence application may be needed within 20 working days. - 24 Apr 2018: New director appointed: YAMADA, Takeshi. Director change recorded on 24 Apr 2018. 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. - 24 Apr 2018: Director resigned: LOCKTON, Geoffrey Charles. Director change recorded on 24 Apr 2018. 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. - 24 Apr 2018: Director resigned: UCHIBAYASHI, Toru. Director change recorded on 24 Apr 2018. 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. - 24 Apr 2018: New secretary appointed: BUXTON, Anthony Brian. Company secretary change recorded on 24 Apr 2018. 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. - 30 Sep 2017: Director resigned: KILLEAVY, Brendan James. Director change recorded on 30 Sep 2017. 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. - 1 Apr 2017: New director appointed: NOJI, Isao. Director change recorded on 1 Apr 2017. 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. - 1 Apr 2017: Director resigned: TADA, Yuichi. Director change recorded on 1 Apr 2017. 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. - 26 Apr 2016: New director appointed: KACHI, Hiroyuki. Director change recorded on 26 Apr 2016. 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. - 26 Apr 2016: New director appointed: UCHIBAYASHI, Toru. Director change recorded on 26 Apr 2016. 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. - 26 Apr 2016: Director resigned: ISHIGURO, Tadashi. Director change recorded on 26 Apr 2016. 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. - 26 Apr 2016: Director resigned: OTA, Katsuto. Director change recorded on 26 Apr 2016. 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. - 6 Apr 2016: Notification of Brother Industries Limited as a person with significant control. New majority owner or controller recorded on 6 Apr 2016. 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. - 7 May 2015: New director appointed: ISHIGURO, Tadashi. Director change recorded on 7 May 2015. 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. - 7 May 2015: Director resigned: KOIDE, Tetsuro. Director change recorded on 7 May 2015. 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 Brother International Europe LTD ### Is Brother International Europe LTD a licensed UK visa sponsor? Yes. Brother International Europe LTD in Manchester is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors and has been since at least 2013. It can sponsor workers from overseas, but not every job it advertises comes with sponsorship. ### What visa routes can Brother International Europe LTD sponsor? Brother International Europe LTD is licensed for Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker and Skilled Worker. Its licence rating on the register is "Worker (A rating)". ### Where is Brother International Europe LTD based? The register lists Brother International Europe LTD at Brother House, 1 Tame Street, Audenshaw, Manchester, M34 5JE. 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 00664172. 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/brother-international-europe-ltd-manchester-798214 - This fact sheet: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/brother-international-europe-ltd-manchester-798214.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.