--- title: "Kawasaki Heavy Industries (UK) Ltd.: UK sponsor licence status" canonical: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/kawasaki-heavy-industries-uk-ltd-london-705621 register_status: active register_as_of: 2026-11-02 publisher: Borderless (https://www.getborderless.co.uk) source: UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors (Open Government Licence v3); Companies House --- # Kawasaki Heavy Industries (UK) Ltd.: UK sponsor licence status > As of 2 November 2026, Kawasaki Heavy Industries (UK) Ltd. (Companies House 02591966, London) 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 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 - First seen on the register: 4 August 2013 or earlier - Legal name: KAWASAKI HEAVY INDUSTRIES (UK) LTD - Industry: Manufacturing & Industrial - Town: London - Registered address: New Broad Street House, 35 New Broad Street, London, United Kingdom, EC2M 1NH - Companies House number: 02591966 (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02591966) - Website: https://www.kawasaki.co.uk - Register data as of: 2 November 2026 (GOV.UK register of licensed sponsors, re-read daily) - Web page: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/kawasaki-heavy-industries-uk-ltd-london-705621 ## Where this sponsor sits - One of 36,683 licensed sponsors in London: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/in/london - 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 19 changes worth checking, checked 31 October 2026, newest first: - 14 Jul 2026: Registered office address changed. Registered office change recorded on 14 Jul 2026. 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. - 1 May 2026: Registered office address changed. Registered office change recorded on 1 May 2026. 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. - 1 Sep 2025: Secretary resigned: IMAOKA, Hidenori. Company secretary change recorded on 1 Sep 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 Sep 2025: New director appointed: TAKADA, Takeaki. Director change recorded on 1 Sep 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. - 23 Sep 2021: Director resigned: YAMAGUCHI, Tomoyoshi. Director change recorded on 23 Sep 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. - 23 Sep 2021: New director appointed: SATO, Shinichi. Director change recorded on 23 Sep 2021. 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 Oct 2020: New secretary appointed: IMAOKA, Hidenori. Company secretary change recorded on 1 Oct 2020. 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 2020: Director resigned: SHIMIZU, Hodaka. Director change recorded on 30 Sep 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. - 1 Sep 2020: New director appointed: IMAOKA, Hidenori. Director change recorded on 1 Sep 2020. 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. - 9 Jun 2020: Registered office address changed. Registered office change recorded on 9 Jun 2020. 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. - 2 Jan 2018: New director appointed: YAMAGUCHI, Tomoyoshi. Director change recorded on 2 Jan 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. - 2 Jan 2018: Director resigned: NODA, Makoto. Director change recorded on 2 Jan 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. - 1 Mar 2017: New director appointed: NODA, Makoto. Director change recorded on 1 Mar 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 Mar 2017: Director resigned: SUGIURA, Hiroyuki. Director change recorded on 1 Mar 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. - 30 Jun 2016: Notification of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd as a person with significant control. New majority owner or controller recorded on 30 Jun 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. - 1 Apr 2015: New director appointed: SHIMIZU, Hodaka. Director change recorded on 1 Apr 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. - 1 Apr 2015: Secretary resigned: KAWAI, Masami. Company secretary change recorded on 1 Apr 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. - 1 Apr 2014: New director appointed: SUGIURA, Hiroyuki. Director change recorded on 1 Apr 2014. 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 2014: Director resigned: SHISHIDO, Kazuro. Director change recorded on 1 Apr 2014. 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 Kawasaki Heavy Industries (UK) Ltd. ### Is Kawasaki Heavy Industries (UK) Ltd. a licensed UK visa sponsor? Yes. Kawasaki Heavy Industries (UK) Ltd. in London 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 Kawasaki Heavy Industries (UK) Ltd. sponsor? Kawasaki Heavy Industries (UK) Ltd. is licensed for Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker. Its licence rating on the register is "Worker (A rating)". ### Where is Kawasaki Heavy Industries (UK) Ltd. based? The register lists Kawasaki Heavy Industries (UK) Ltd. at New Broad Street House, 35 New Broad Street, London, United Kingdom, EC2M 1NH. 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 2 November 2026, and Companies House records for company number 02591966. 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/kawasaki-heavy-industries-uk-ltd-london-705621 - This fact sheet: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/kawasaki-heavy-industries-uk-ltd-london-705621.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.