A refugee sponsor who had given a valid undertaking under the old regulations, and whose eligibility an immigration officer had already accepted, is treated as having an approved sponsorship application under the current rules. Two things break that: asking to add another person to the undertaking, and being someone who is now ineligible to take part in a sponsorship at all. Otherwise the old approval carried forward with no new application.
(1)Subject to subsections (2) and (3), a sponsor who made an undertaking within the meaning of paragraph (b) of the definition undertaking in subsection 2(1) of the former Regulations, or of the definition undertaking in subsection 1(1) of the Humanitarian Designated Classes Regulations, and in respect of whom an immigration officer was satisfied that the requirements of paragraph 7.1(2)(d) or 5(2)(d) of those Regulations, respectively, were met is deemed to be a sponsor whose application has been approved by an officer under section 154.
(2)Subsection (1) does not apply to a sponsor who requests that a person be added to their undertaking.
(3)Subsection (1) does not apply to a sponsor who is ineligible to be a party to a sponsorship under section 156.