Immigration

Overview

Business Immigration

Whether you’re an employer, educational organisation or a charity, we provide advice and assistance on all areas of business immigration.  If you’re looking to engage a worker or student from overseas, we can advise you on the best options to suit your business needs.

For business users, we focus on the following areas:

• Sponsorship
  – Licence applications
  – Administration of licence
  – Compliance
  – Audits
•  Visa applications
  – Work visas (skilled workers, intra company, temporary)
  – Student visas
• Business visitors
• Frontier workers and global mobility workers
• Right to Work compliance
  – Right to Work checks
  – Opposing Civil Penalties
  – Training in prevention of illegal working
  – Audits
• High Net Worth Investors and Business Entrepreneurs
  – Investors
  – Start-up or Innovator
  – Overseas representative

Individual immigration

We understand that individuals require support with their immigration requirements.  We advise individuals across all sectors, whether they are employed, self-employed, students studying or family members of migrants.

For individuals, we focus on the following areas:

• Employment or self-employment
  – PBS dependants
  – Entrepreneur – extensions only
  – Start-up or Innovator
  – Investors
  – Temporary Workers
  – Overseas Representative
• Global talent scheme
• Students and graduates
• General visitors
• EEA Citizens and family members
• Family routes
• British Citizenship
• Returning residents

Featured experience

We recently successfully made representations to the Home Office to reinstate sponsors who had their sponsorship licences suspended.

We have also successfully conducted appeals through various channels, including the Immigration Tribunal, liaison with UKVI and Members of Parliament.

We regularly provide training to businesses on their obligation to undertake right to work checks.

We have also provided workshops for employees potentially affected by the UK’s exit from the European Union.

Brexit: Spotlight

The UK has left the European Union. We provide details on key issues that will affect businesses in the UK over the coming months and into the future. Visit our Brexit: Spotlight page for more information.

Resource

Immigration Law Sponsorship Administration Services

Employers Guidance for hires from 1 July 2021, including , Right to Work on existing EU nationals and sponsorship (Source: Home Office)

Coronavirus (Covid-19)

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected businesses across the globe.  The ability to hire from overseas and comply with immigration law has been hampered by lockdowns and restrictions.  There are numerous concessions in place from the Home Office for organisations that hire migrant workers, but these change at rapid pace.  We therefore have a dedicated area on our website – Covid-19 Immigration Information Hub, where we publish all COVID-19 material relating to immigration.

Webinars

We regularly host live webinars as well as share pre-recorded webinars on our Immigration playlist of our YouTube channel: