--- title: "Discover Financial Services (UK) Ltd: UK sponsor licence status" canonical: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/discover-financial-services-uk-ltd-farnborough-748643 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 --- # Discover Financial Services (UK) Ltd: UK sponsor licence status > As of 30 October 2026, Discover Financial Services (UK) Ltd (Companies House 06455516, Farnborough) 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 19 November 2019 (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: 19 November 2019 - Legal name: DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES (UK) LIMITED - Industry: Financial Services - Town: Farnborough - Registered address: Suite 1, 3rd Floor 11-12 St. James’S Square, London, United Kingdom, SW1Y 4LB - Companies House number: 06455516 (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06455516) - 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/discover-financial-services-uk-ltd-farnborough-748643 ## Where this sponsor sits - One of 130 licensed sponsors in Farnborough: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/in/farnborough - One of 7,429 in Financial Services: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/industry/financial-services - 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 16 changes worth checking, checked 26 October 2026, newest first: - 23 Oct 2025: Secretary resigned: VAINIKOS, Efrosini (Efie) M.. Company secretary change recorded on 23 Oct 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. - 26 Jun 2025: Director resigned: KOLSKY, Shifra. Director change recorded on 26 Jun 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. - 20 Jun 2025: New director appointed: GOLDEN, Timothy. Director change recorded on 20 Jun 2025. 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. - 18 May 2025: Notification of Capital One Financial Corporation as a person with significant control. New majority owner or controller recorded on 18 May 2025. 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. - 18 May 2025: Cessation of Dfs Services Llc as a person with significant control. Change to people with significant control recorded on 18 May 2025. 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. - 11 Sep 2023: New secretary appointed: VAINIKOS, Efrosini (Efie) M.. Company secretary change recorded on 11 Sep 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. - 31 Aug 2023: New director appointed: VAINIKOS, Efrosini (Efie) M.. Director change recorded on 31 Aug 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. - 31 Aug 2023: Director resigned: OFFEREINS, Diane E.. Director change recorded on 31 Aug 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. - 31 Aug 2023: Director resigned: CASTROGIOVANNI, Philip. Director change recorded on 31 Aug 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. - 31 Aug 2023: New director appointed: HANSON, Jason P.. Director change recorded on 31 Aug 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: Registered office address changed. Registered office change recorded on 8 Feb 2023. If the address on your sponsor licence has changed, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 27 Jan 2023: Registered office address changed. Registered office change recorded on 27 Jan 2023. If the address on your sponsor licence has changed, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 25 Jan 2023: New director appointed: KOLSKY, Shifra. Director change recorded on 25 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. - 25 Jan 2023: Director resigned: HOCHSCHILD, Roger. Director change recorded on 25 Jan 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. - 11 Jul 2022: New director appointed: CASTROGIOVANNI, Philip. Director change recorded on 11 Jul 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. - 11 Jul 2022: Director resigned: GREENE, Christopher. Director change recorded on 11 Jul 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. 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 Discover Financial Services (UK) Ltd ### Is Discover Financial Services (UK) Ltd a licensed UK visa sponsor? Yes. Discover Financial Services (UK) Ltd in Farnborough is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors under this name since 2019. It can sponsor workers from overseas, but not every job it advertises comes with sponsorship. ### What visa routes can Discover Financial Services (UK) Ltd sponsor? Discover Financial Services (UK) 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 Discover Financial Services (UK) Ltd based? The register lists Discover Financial Services (UK) Ltd at Suite 1, 3rd Floor 11-12 St. James’S Square, London, United Kingdom, SW1Y 4LB. 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 06455516. 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/discover-financial-services-uk-ltd-farnborough-748643 - This fact sheet: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/discover-financial-services-uk-ltd-farnborough-748643.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.