No. The published ability to apply for multiple employees does not replace review of each prospective immigrant’s eligibility, admissibility and visa availability.
Review the roster before budgeting as final
Ask counsel to assess the proposed participants and identify unresolved individual issues. Company sponsorship and payment capacity describe only part of the arrangement. Avoid presenting a headcount approved by management as a list of people already entitled to relocate through the programme.
Ask for the roster to come back annotated rather than approved. Hypothetical example: a sponsor submits a list of proposed participants and receives it back with three categories marked: no issue identified on the information provided, individual issue requiring further advice, and insufficient information to assess. The third category is usually the largest at a first meeting and is the reason a budget presented as final at that stage is premature.
Ask counsel to state, for each participant, what additional information is required and from whom. Company sponsorship and payment capacity describe the company position and say nothing about an individual eligibility, admissibility or visa availability, each assessed on that person facts. Record the date of the assessment and what it assumed, since terms as currently described may change and an undated roster review cannot be relied on later.