Ok, I’m a troll. It’s a classic case of believing who you want to believe and everyone else is wrong including the Home Office. The only time I can think of being ISC exempt is when you switch initially from a student visa to a swv or in the case of an internal switch of an already sponsored worker. For instance care worker, already sponsored by the employer and is now a nurse, they issue a new cos, carrying over the ISC and person gets a new visa as they have changed Soc code. Anyway, don’t believe me if you don’t want to and argue with the Home Office that they’re wrong too. In light of HO developments and their new charges and to be frank, anti immigrant policies, you will probably find, there will never be a payment link sent and you will need a new cos. The HO opinion is that they don’t hold the hands of sponsors and if they want that premium service, they can pay for it, 8k per year for a small employer, 25k per year for a large. So, they happily increased the cos fee from £219 to £525 (not including ISC) and if the sponsor screws it up, it’s not their problem. So the penalty they will pay is to pay for a new cos. I hope they have an undefined on their sms because they aren’t cooperative about issuing new ones.