We help you bring international talent to the UK, giving your business the edge in a competitive market.
Our top-ranked immigration team offers comprehensive guidance to employers and their people on immigration matters, providing tailored support to achieve your objectives efficiently and effectively. Whether you’re a startup business or large multinational, we work with you to determine the most appropriate route for employees to enter or remain in the UK and troubleshoot often stressful immigration issues.
We regularly advise businesses transferring employees to the UK from overseas companies or hiring overseas nationals to work in the UK. This includes:
- Obtaining and maintaining a sponsor licence.
- Submitting immigration applications for employees and interns.
- Advising on the legal parameters of immigration routes, including the business visitor route.
- Obtaining indefinite leave to remain and British citizenship.
We offer a holistic approach. Working closely with our employment team, we also advise on the interplay between employment and immigration related issues, such as right to work checks and the prevention of illegal working, discrimination risks arising from deciding not to sponsor a worker, as well as immigration issues triggered by buying or selling a business. In addition, we also advise on employment contracts, secondment agreements, and key issues to consider when moving overseas nationals to the UK or transferring UK nationals abroad. Our tax team is also able to advise on the tax implications.
Our experience includes
- Acting as BMI Group’s trusted legal adviser on all UK immigration applications and as Level 1 Users on the sponsor licence, providing strategic advice on permitted business visitor activities and the roll out of e-Visas and the Electronic Travel Authorisation scheme.
- Advising Sony Music Publishing UK Ltd in relation to its UK immigration matters, including on Skilled Worker applications.
- Advising a gaming business in relation to the impact of corporate structure changes in the group on the sponsor licence, and one of its employees obtaining Indefinite Leave to Remain under the ancestry category.
- Providing strategic advice to a digital transformation business in relation to immigration matters arising as part of a corporate transaction, where it transpired during the due diligence and disclosure process that there was an error in a key employee’s immigration application submission.
- Advising a quantum computing business in relation to a previously defined Certificate of Sponsorship refusal and next steps to ensure the subsequent request was successful, as well as on clawback provisions in employment contracts and the incoming Electronic Travel Authorisation scheme.
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