We help you bring international talent to the UK, giving your business the edge in a competitive market.
We help you handle your immigration needs seamlessly. Our expert team provides clear and practical guidance and support for businesses and individuals on navigating UK immigration lawand processes. We work with you to ensure your practices align with the latest law and guidance, removing as much of the immigration burden as we can, and reducing risks and delays to enablekey staff to start working for you in the UK at the earliest opportunity.
Our experience includes
- Advising a consultancy firm on UK immigration matters, such as drafting clawback agreements for sponsored workers and advising on which sponsorship fees may be recouped if the employee leaves early, and advising on secondment agreements and employment contracts for sponsored workers to ensure that they meet both the employment and immigration requirements.
- Advising a UK railway infrastructure and rail freight company on immigration matters, including successfully obtaining Skilled Worker permission for an existing employee switching from the Graduate route.
- Advising a pizza restaurant chain on immigration issues arising from the TUPE transfer of sponsored employees from acquired franchisee companies.
- Advising an international industrial machinery business on obtaining a sponsor licence and successfully submitting a Skilled Worker application to enable the hire of a key employee who was initially based in the US, working alongside US lawyers in relation to permission to remain in the US and the client’s and employee’s ultimate aims regarding applying for a US visa in the future.
- Advising an automotive manufacturer on complex immigration queries, such as when a sponsored worker sponsored by a service provider to the client can work at the client’s site and how to mitigate the immigration risks, the risks of discrimination claims should the client elect not to sponsor someone and how these risks might be reduced, and whether a senior employee’s eligibility for indefinite leave would be impacted if they spent a proportion of time working overseas.
How we help
- Collaborating with businesses and individuals to explore the most suitable immigration routes, including sponsorship, ancestry, Innovator Founder, intern, graduate and Global Talent routes.
- Supporting businesses to hire international talent by managing Skilled Worker applications and advising on eligibility requirements, including minimum salary thresholds and English language criteria.
- Working with businesses to enable them to transfer key employees from overseas offices to UK branches under the Senior/Specialist Worker category.
- Advising in relation to dependant applications for the partners and children of the main applicant.
- Advising entrepreneurs, skilled professionals and young workers on available visa options to fit their career goals.
- Advising on the parameters of the business visitor route.
- Obtaining and maintaining sponsor licences, working with you to ensure your business meets Home Office requirements and complies with its sponsor duties.
- Advising overseas businesses on setting up UK operations, including transferring overseas senior employees to the UK through the UK Expansion Worker route.
- Advising individuals on obtaining indefinite leave to remain and applications for naturalisation and registration as a British citizen.
