Renewal of Sponsiorship certificates allowance

Monday, 5th October 2009

From today all registered sponsors who obtained a Sponsorship Licence in 2008 will be able to request next year's allowance of sponorship certificates

The allocation of certificates of sponsorship need to be requested annually via the Sponsor Management System. The sponsor should make their first request by the first anniversay of the date when they were notified that their account was live.

Sponsors who are registered in multiple tiers and categories of the points based system who obtained registration at different times will be able to chose to align the expiry dates.

Annual allocation requests will not affect the four year period for which a sponsor licence is valid.

Sponsors who fail to renew their request will not be able to issue certificates of sponsorship until their new certificates allowance has been approved.

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