Work Permit Cloud

Work Permit Cloud: regulated immigration advice for UK businesses and individuals

Work Permit Cloud is a UK immigration advisory firm regulated by the IAA (Immigration Advice Authority) under number F202100311. Its work serves both employers that need to sponsor foreign workers and individuals applying for visas, settlement or nationality. The firm states it has secured over 3,000 sponsor licences and operates from an office on Level 28 of The Gherkin in London.

The company's offering is structured as an ecosystem bringing immigration, human resources, legal services and recruitment together under one structure, the WPC Group. Each area is covered by a separate company with its own regulatory authorisation.

Sponsor licences and compliance for employers

The core of the business for companies is sponsor licence management: applications, renewals and action in the event of suspensions. Work Permit Cloud also provides training for users of the SMS system and for issuing Certificates of Sponsorship, as well as compliance services: internal HR audits, preparation for Home Office visits, right to work checks and management of civil penalties.

The firm offers online self-assessment tools so that companies can check their eligibility, the status of their licence or potential compliance risks before starting procedures.

Visas and routes of entry to the UK

The visa services catalogue is broad and covers various categories:

• Skilled work: Skilled Worker, Health and Care, ministers of religion and religious workers.
• Temporary work: Government Authorised Exchange and creative or charity workers.
• Global business mobility: Graduate Trainee, UK Expansion Worker, Specialist Worker and Scale-up.
• Business and self-employment: Self-Sponsorship, Innovator Founder, Turkish Businessperson and Scale-up.
• Family and partners: spouse, dependants and unmarried partners.
• Study: Student, Child Student and Graduate.
• Visitors: tourism, business and marriage.

It also provides support with the EU Settlement Scheme (pre-settled and settled status, family permit), the 20-year private life route, indefinite leave to remain (ILR) through 5- and 10-year routes, British citizenship and BNO status. In terms of remedies, the firm points to administrative review, appeal to the tribunal and judicial review.

WPC Lawyers: legal defence before the Home Office

Contentious matters are handled by WPC Lawyers Ltd, a company authorised by the SRA as an Alternative Business Structure with ID 8003128. This area deals with sponsor licence suspensions and revocations, judicial reviews of Home Office decisions, appeals against civil penalties before the First-tier Tribunal, family and marriage matters, and commercial and residential leases, as well as other complex immigration issues.

WPC Accountants and WPC Jobs

WPC Accountants Ltd is an accounting practice supervised by the AAT (ID 1008840) offering annual accounts and company filings, bookkeeping and payroll management, VAT registration and returns, self-assessment tax returns, contractor and CIS accounting, and financial planning for new businesses. WPC Jobs Ltd, for its part, is listed as a REC member with number 00209329 and provides international recruitment and verified staffing services for sponsoring employers.

Right to work checks and international expansion

The Right to Work Check service, operated by Work Permit Cloud, combines biometric identity verification through iProov and Microblink, document checks with BlinkID, share code and eVisa flows for sponsored workers, and a sponsor duties tracker linked to the CoS and SOC. It includes automated repeat checks for temporary visas and a digital audit trail for Home Office compliance.

The firm also has a UK-MENA expansion line through WPC Global (DMCC-842318), focused on company formation, cross-border structuring and support for expansion between the UK and the Middle East and North Africa.

Foundation and recognition

The founder of WPC Group is Md Lutfur Rahman, FCILEx, with more than twenty years' experience in business immigration. The firm cites its inclusion in the Pro Bono Recognition List 2026 for England and Wales and the Immigration Lawyer of the Year award at the Speakers Are Leaders Awards 2024. Work Permit Cloud holds Cyber Essentials certification and maintains a rating of 4.9 out of 5 based on 866 reviews on Trustpilot.

Location and contact

Level 28, The Gherkin, London EC3A 8BF