Our Immigration team offers businesses and individuals expert legal advice and representation over the full spectrum of Immigration Law with a friendly and responsive approach.

Business immigration

We provide specialist immigration advice to all types of businesses and charities from small family companies to large multinational organisations based within and outside the UK.

We frequently advise employers who intend to recruit overseas workers, including those who currently employ workers under the old work permit system. We advise on all aspects of the right to work in the UK and we also offer a pre-licence immigration appraisal which assesses the HR systems of employers in anticipation of both the licence application and a UKBA Inspection.

UK employers

• sponsoring employees and sponsorship licence applications, amendments and renewals 
• extending the employment of workers currently in the UK on work permits
• changes to terms and conditions which may affect a worker's conditions to remain in the UK
• recruiting overseas workers - employment checks including the right to work and preventing illegal working
• what an employer should do if they discover they have a worker who does not have the right to work in the UK.

As well as advising on specific issues, we provide training seminars for HR managers on immigration requirements including a comprehensive range of guidance notes and templates for your business.

Overseas companies and other categories of workers

We can advise on initial applications to enter the UK in addition to applications for leave to remain for:

• directors and employees transferring between international workplaces
• business visitors and secondments
• self-employed and highly skilled industry consultants
• overseas organisations setting up new branches in the UK
• skilled workers, including sports persons, entertainers and Ministers of Religion
• temporary workers and charity workers

Individual immigration

• indefinite leave to remain (permanent residence) and naturalisation (British Citizenship)
• post-study workers
• visitor visa applications
• EEA registration certificates, residence cards and family member residence stamps
• marriage and fiancé / fiancée applications
• dependants

For initial information and for initial enquiries, please contact Caitlin Anniss on 0117 3145 264  or Colin Godfrey on 020 7665 0839.