--- title: "Menicon Limited: UK sponsor licence status" canonical: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/menicon-limited-northampton-731781 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 --- # Menicon Limited: UK sponsor licence status > As of 30 October 2026, Menicon Limited (Companies House 01043189, Northampton) 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 29 April 2017 (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: 29 April 2017 - Industry: Manufacturing & Industrial - Town: Northampton - Registered address: 1 Gatelodge Close, Round Spinney, Northampton, NN3 8RJ - Companies House number: 01043189 (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01043189) - Website: https://www.menicon.co.uk - 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/menicon-limited-northampton-731781 ## Where this sponsor sits - One of 515 licensed sponsors in Northampton: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/in/northampton - 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 13 changes worth checking, checked 1 November 2026, newest first: - 3 Jun 2025: Director resigned: TAKESHITA, Kenji. Director change recorded on 3 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. - 3 Jun 2025: New director appointed: KOGA, Hideki. Director change recorded on 3 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. - 6 Jun 2024: New director appointed: TAKESHITA, Kenji. Director change recorded on 6 Jun 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 2024: Director resigned: KOGA, Hideki. Director change recorded on 6 Jun 2024. 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 2024: Director resigned: MITCHELL, Kevin John. Director change recorded on 6 Jun 2024. 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 2024: Director resigned: ANDO, Wataru. Director change recorded on 6 Jun 2024. 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 2024: New director appointed: WILLIAMSON, Gaynor Louise. Director change recorded on 6 Jun 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 2024: New director appointed: ENGELHART, Nicolaas Johannes Adrianus. Director change recorded on 6 Jun 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 Jun 2023: Director resigned: WATANABE, Motonari. Director change recorded on 13 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 2022: New director appointed: ANDO, Wataru. Director change recorded on 6 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. - 4 Jun 2019: New director appointed: WATANABE, Motonari. Director change recorded on 4 Jun 2019. 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. - 4 Jun 2019: Director resigned: OHTA, Akinori. Director change recorded on 4 Jun 2019. 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 2017: Director resigned: ROLFE, Peter Francis. Director change recorded on 30 Jun 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. 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 Menicon Limited ### Is Menicon Limited a licensed UK visa sponsor? Yes. Menicon Limited in Northampton is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors under this name since 2017. It can sponsor workers from overseas, but not every job it advertises comes with sponsorship. ### What visa routes can Menicon Limited sponsor? Menicon Limited is licensed for Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker. Its licence rating on the register is "Worker (A rating)". ### Where is Menicon Limited based? The register lists Menicon Limited at 1 Gatelodge Close, Round Spinney, Northampton, NN3 8RJ. 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 01043189. 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/menicon-limited-northampton-731781 - This fact sheet: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/menicon-limited-northampton-731781.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.