With a Tier 2 sponsor licence, you can sponsor skilled overseas workers to come to the UK and take roles that can’t be filled in the UK. Or, as an international company, you can use it to transfer overseas staff into the UK. This involves a complex series of duties and obligations, enforced by a stringent set of sanctions. So, you need an experienced legal advisor who can support you through the whole sponsor licence process, and make it seamless. Our skilled immigration team offers practical support and guidance to manage immigration risk and help you comply with all regulations. Our services cover:

• Sponsor Licence Applications
• Sponsorship and Compliance advisory services
• Preparation for Home Office Compliance Visits
• Responding to Licence Revocations
• Advisory, consultative and training support

Your business might be a start-up, a global corporation or an SME. You could be looking to work or set up business in the UK, or hire overseas workers. If so, immigration law will affect you. With our vast immigration knowledge and legal expertise, we’ll guide you through all the complexities to increase your chances of success. From ensuring compliance with work permit schemes, sponsorship duties and residence requirements, to practical support through the immigration journey, from entry to residence, settlement and citizenship. We can also draw on the expertise and knowledge of our corporate and employment teams to help you set up a business in the UK and ensure you and your employees know your obligations and rights. Our services include:

• Points Based System Applications – Leave to Enter and Remain
• Business Visitors
• Skilled Workers with a Job Offer
• Shortage Occupations
• Tier 2 (General)
• Tier 2 Intra-Company Transfers
• International Agreements
• Tier 1 Investors
• Tier 1 Innovators
• Tier 1 Start-Up
• Representatives of an Overseas Businesses

We’ve been helping people come to the UK for many years. So, if you or your family are moving here, either temporarily or permanently, we’ll give you clear, practical expert advice, tailored to your needs. We’ll help you through the constantly changing immigration rules. We’ll also draw on the expertise of our tax, employment, family, corporate, commercial and private wealth teams where necessary. All to give you the individual support you need. Our services include:

• Leave to enter and remain
• Entry clearance applications
• Extension/further leave to remain applications
• Indefinite leave to enter and remain
• Visit visa applications
  • Tourist visa
  • Family visitor visa
  • Business visitor visa
  • Short term study visa
  • Marriage and civil partnership visa
  • Permitted paid engagement visitor visa
  • Academic visitor visa
• Points-based system applications
  • Tier 1 investor visa
  • Tier 1 entrepreneur visa
  • Tier 2 (general) visa
  • Tier 2 (ICT) visa
  • Tier 4 student visa
  • Tier 5 temporary worker – government authorised exchange visa
  • Tier 5 (youth mobility scheme)
• Start-up visa
• Innovator visa
• European applications
  • Family permit
  • Residence card/registration certificate
  • Permanent residence
  • Retained rights of residence
  • EEA pre-settled status
  • EEA settled-status
• Long residence
• Article 8 private and family life
• Spouse/civil partner/fiancé(e) visas
• Visa for victims of domestic violence
• Unmarried partners visa
• Family reunion applications
• Overstaying
• Subject access requests under the data protection act
• Appeals at the first tier tribunal and upper tier tribunal
• Administrative reviews