Duncan Lewis Solicitors‘ immigration and public law team offers a full range of services with strong expertise in strategic immigration, human rights, asylum, and deportation cases. The team is regularly engaged to represent clients in judicial review cases – particularly with relation to unlawful detention and removal challenges, as well as human rights cases that focus on vulnerable clients, fresh asylum claims, and detained asylum seekers. The team is led by Darren Middleton, who specialises in working with vulnerable individuals and complex cases that include further submissions and deportation matters. Amritpal Singh is a supervising solicitor in the private and business immigration department and has significant experience dealing with clients in detention, as well as those suffering from complex psychological issues and victims of both torture and trafficking.

The immigration team at Sydney Mitchell LLP represents clients in significant matters throughout the immigration space. With an established practice in private fee-paying immigration matters, often handling personal and human rights-based cases, the practice has developed a strong corporate offering, dealing with several sponsorship licence applications and skilled worker applications. The team is led by André Minnaar, who brings vast experience in immigration and asylum work, often resolving complicated UK immigration, asylum, and nationality problems. Further support is offered by Melissa Southall, who provides extensive personal immigration advice to clients ranging from spouse visas and applications for children to European applications for citizenship.

VWV‘s immigration team handles a mix of personal and corporate immigration work, with a range of clients from the technology, automotive, financial services, and education sectors. As part of an integrated team, the group regularly advises on corporate transactions involving business and education providers that hold sponsor licenses, assisting with both due diligence and the processes to sponsor both foreign national students and employees. The team benefits from the experience of practice head Tom Brett Young, who specialises in both business and personal immigration matters, often advising on clients’ compliance duties as sponsors of worker and student visa applications. Talitha Degwa is also recommended, and excels in the technology sector.

The immigration team at Bevan Brittan LLP offers various types of immigration law advice including advising clients on skilled worker eligibility, certificates of sponsorship, assisting visa applicants with preparation and submissions, right-to-work checks, and overseas recruitment. The team is particularly well-known within the healthcare and university sectors, often assisting with sponsorship eligibility matters, visa application processes, and workforce planning. Ashley Norman heads the team and leads the firm’s national immigration practice, with experience supporting a range of clients from different sectors on immigration compliance and audits.

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP’s global mobility and immigration team represents a range of leading organisations throughout various industries. The team is led by Audrey Elliott, a specialist in both employment law and business immigration, Elliott leads both the Birmingham and national immigration practice, which regularly advises clients on global mobility and risk management issues including the defence of illegal working prosecutions, and immigration enforcement raids, and sponsor licence compliance audits. Further support comes from Nerys Ireland, with a focus on education sector immigration.

The business immigration department at The Wilkes Partnership provides a range of services targeting matters relevant to employer clients and owner-managers, including skilled worker and global business mobility sponsorship matters, frontier worker permits, and EU family permits. The team is led by Pam Sidhu, who advises on all employment-related immigration areas, with extensive experience handling applications, worker visas, business visitor visas, and a range of EU permits.

Wright Hassall LLP‘s business immigration team represents a strong client base covering the retail, advertising, financial, and other professional services sectors. The team, led by Matthew Davies, demonstrates strong capabilities to advise clients on their business immigration matters and also other law firms on their internal immigration issues. Davies brings extensive experience to the team and is noted for dealing with sensitive cases often involving illegal working and dismissals.

HCR Law‘ employment and immigration team represents a wide-ranging client base, operating across numerous  sectors including the education, charities, technology, and healthcare spaces, as well as assisting private individuals. The team has a particular strength in handling the recruitment of non-UK nationals, often working with those who require sponsorship. Other work handled by the firm involves compliance issues and dealing with the Home Office and related sponsorship duties. The team is led by Lynne Adams and Michael Stokes, who bring a wealth of employment and immigration experience to the practice.

Shakespeare Martineau LLP‘s business immigration team acts for a range of businesses across a wide range of sectors, from education and healthcare, to finance and construction. The team has a focus on providing business planning and immigration solutions for clients who rely on a skilled international workforce, and Calum Hanrahan leads the team and has extensive knowledge of the UK sponsorship system, working directly with clients to navigate immigration matters. Further work sees the team undertake immigration audits for clients to assess UKVI sponsor licence and right-to-work compliance, as well as providing immigration training sessions for HR professionals.