--- title: "Business Insurance Solutions Limited: UK sponsor licence status" canonical: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/business-insurance-solutions-limited-guildford-779702 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 --- # Business Insurance Solutions Limited: UK sponsor licence status > As of 30 October 2026, Business Insurance Solutions Limited (trading as Van LineDirect; Companies House 06837377; Guildford) holds an A-rated Worker sponsor licence covering the Scale-up and Skilled Worker routes, and has appeared on the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors since 2 February 2023 (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: Scale-up; Skilled Worker - First seen on the register: 2 February 2023 - Trading as: Van LineDirect - Also known as: VAN COMPARE - Industry: Financial Services - Town: Guildford - Registered address: 1st Floor, 2 Bishops Wharf, Walnut Tree Close, Guildford, England, GU1 4UP - Companies House number: 06837377 (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06837377) - Website: https://www.vanlinedirect.co.uk - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/financial-ombudsman-service - 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/business-insurance-solutions-limited-guildford-779702 ## Where this sponsor sits - One of 249 licensed sponsors in Guildford: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/in/guildford - One of 7,429 in Financial Services: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/industry/financial-services ## Companies House changes since it joined the register 10 changes worth checking, checked 26 October 2026, newest first: - 10 Sep 2026: New shares issued (allotment). Share capital filing recorded on 10 Sep 2026. 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. - 30 Apr 2026: Director resigned: BARRETT, David Charles Anthony. Director change recorded on 30 Apr 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. - 30 Apr 2026: Secretary resigned: BARRETT, David. Company secretary change recorded on 30 Apr 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. - 6 Mar 2024: New person with significant control: Mr Joel William Connelly. Change to people with significant control recorded on 6 Mar 2024. 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. - 6 Mar 2024: Cessation of Mr David Barrett as a person with significant control. Change to people with significant control recorded on 6 Mar 2024. 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. - 6 Mar 2024: New director appointed: CONNELLY, Joel William. Director change recorded on 6 Mar 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. - 13 Feb 2023: New director appointed: HAMMON, Philip. Director change recorded on 13 Feb 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. - 8 Feb 2023: New person with significant control: Mr David Barrett. Change to people with significant control recorded on 8 Feb 2023. 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. - 8 Feb 2023: Cessation of Mr Euan Marlow Mcdonald as a person with significant control. Change to people with significant control recorded on 8 Feb 2023. 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. - 8 Feb 2023: Director resigned: MCDONALD, Euan Marlow. Director change recorded on 8 Feb 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. 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 Business Insurance Solutions Limited ### Is Business Insurance Solutions Limited a licensed UK visa sponsor? Yes. Business Insurance Solutions Limited in Guildford is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors under this name since 2023. It can sponsor workers from overseas, but not every job it advertises comes with sponsorship. ### What visa routes can Business Insurance Solutions Limited sponsor? Business Insurance Solutions Limited is licensed for Scale-up and Skilled Worker. Its licence rating on the register is "Worker (A rating)". ### Where is Business Insurance Solutions Limited based? The register lists Business Insurance Solutions Limited at 1st Floor, 2 Bishops Wharf, Walnut Tree Close, Guildford, England, GU1 4UP. 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 06837377. 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/business-insurance-solutions-limited-guildford-779702 - This fact sheet: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/business-insurance-solutions-limited-guildford-779702.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.