Experience

I am a Senior Associate in the Immigration Department, specialising in corporate immigration. I advise businesses on all aspects of sponsorship, including securing and maintaining sponsor licences and guiding them through the process of sponsoring migrant workers.

Highlights
  • Highlighting a niche issue within the Immigration Rules impacting trainee architects, liaising with ILPA to have it raised and providing strategic advice to clients impacted.
  • Assisting a global company of its sponsor licence obligations pre and post-acquisition and the impact on sponsored migrants.
  • Providing strategic advice to a well-known faith based organisation which had previously been subject to UKVI scrutiny and had many of their employees visas’ refused.
  • Obtaining an urgent sponsor licence for a high profile Non-Governmental Organisation, allowing them to sponsor key personnel into the UK within a tight timeframe.
  • Advising a high-profile company facing right to work check scrutiny by the UKVI, ensuring their policies and procedures were updated to reflect UKVI guidance.
  • Training clients and its HR team on sponsoring migrants, implications of Brexit and strategy.
  • Supported a trading company by providing advice on the impact of its restructuring on sponsored workers.
  • Provided high-level, strategic immigration advice on compliance, management of sponsor licence and sponsorship of key hires for a finance company.
  • Supported a number of international architect firms in managing their sponsor licences, providing code analysis and the impact of the removal of architects from the Shortage Occupation List.
  • Supported an international architect firm on relatively untested areas of immigration involving trans individuals and a gap in the right to work guidance through demands of further clarification from the Home Office.
  • Advised a major ‘celebrity church’ client in hiring key staff for its annual conference and how the changes in the Immigration Rules would impact their recruitment activity.
  • Advised a well-known faith-based organisation on options for their key UK clergy and Religious Workers.
  • Provided urgent advice to a student union undergoing internal structural change through compliance training and right to work issues.
  • Advised a well-known charity in obtaining an urgent sponsor licence, allowing them to sponsor key personnel into the UK within a tight timeframe.