Recent work highlights

• Obtaining permanent residence for a German national and a residence card for her US national spouse while simultaneously applying for British citizenship for their children, making submissions under both European law and UK nationality law.
• Assisting with an application for a Tier 1 (investor) visa made through New York using the Gold Service.
• Advising charities on their Tier 2 sponsorship advertising and compliance matters.
• Successfully applying for entry clearance for the foreign partner of a British seafarer who did not otherwise satisfy the partner rules, by arguing that the British partner should be treated as resident in the UK, leading the UKVI to revise its published guidance.
• Successfully challenging the UKVI in the Immigration and Asylum Chamber, following a finding in the Upper Tribunal that the First-tier Tribunal had erred in law in assessing a client’s right to a private life under Article 8 of the ECHR.
• Securing indefinite leave to enter for two minors, so that they could join their British citizen relative on the basis of serious and compelling family and other reasons in their country of origin.