Global mobility

We help you attract and retain key talent across borders.

Our team provides clear and pragmatic advice, working closely with your HR, finance and legal teams.

How we help

  • Advising on international secondments, assignments and relocations.
  • Advising on setting up in the UK, including employment and immigration law considerations and options available for employing people, including worker status and using employers of record.
  • Advising on obtaining a sponsor licence to hire overseas nationals and sponsor compliance.
  • Advising on immigration applications to enable you to hire overseas nationals.
  • Advising on temporary overseas working, permanent transfers overseas and remote hires outside the UK.
  • Advising on managing a global workforce and coordinating advice with overseas lawyers.

Our experience includes

  • Advising Featurespace on an indefinite leave to remain application under the British National (Overseas) route for a Hong Kong national employee, managing Skilled Worker applications for two individuals, providing strategic advice on immigration implications from a recent corporate transaction, and assisting with a new sponsor licence, streamlining the process for the HR team and employees.
  • Advising on a successful application for indefinite leave to remain under the Innovator route, navigating complex requirements for the expedited three-year route, liaising with the endorsement body, compiling extensive evidence, and drafting detailed representations to the Home Office, while also assisting with the extension application for the individual's wife.
  • Providing strategic advice to IT consultancy Delaware on complex immigration issues, specifically on when it is permissible to send sponsored workers to client sites to ensure compliance with sponsor duties.
Stevens & Bolton has made work and navigating legal requirements for our UK-based entity easy. They are easy to work with, clear about expectations and tasks, and straightforward (and proactive) so there are no surprises.
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