If a migrant applying to a Tier 2 Visa (General) uses his/her CoS (Certificate of Sponsorship) number for an application and it is refused due to missing documentation, does the sponsor have to pay to get another reference number?
The webpage for migrants states that:
You can only use your certificate of sponsorship reference number once. You must use it 3 months after getting it.
On the webpage for certificate sponsors, however, there is no mention of the fact that a number can only be used once, even if the same person reapplies for the same situation. All it says is:
Each certificate has its own number which a worker can use to apply for a visa.
Which seems to imply that the same worker, when reapplying, would not need a different number. However, the immigration skills surcharge page for sponsors contains this:
How to pay
You pay the immigration skills charge when you assign a certificate of sponsorship to the worker.
Which, combined with the first extract, implies that every reapplication by the same person incurs in a new cost. Is that so?
Rationale
From the point of view of the worker, it is not clear whether the sponsor is or isn’t paying for each reapplcation, so it is harder to understand its real impact. In the worst case, a sponsor could ask for the worker to pay the extra cost due to reapplying, so it would be better to know if there is such cost.
