Penny Evans

Consultant

Penny Evans

Consultant

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+44 (0)20 7753 7716

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Penny leads the firm’s immigration audit, training and compliance team. She specialises in assisting clients in improving their processes to minimise compliance breaches and finding practical solutions to immigration issues.

Her extensive experience spans both corporate and education clients,  and includes leading immigration audits for universities and corporate clients, and providing training on areas such as prevention of illegal working, skilled worker and student sponsorship. Clients appreciate her down-to-earth style.

I specialise in UK immigration with a focus on assisting educational institutions and business clients with their audit, training and compliance requirements. I engage with clients to understand their issues and work with them to develop robust processes which are tailored to their needs.

Penny Evans, Consultant

Penny has detailed experience supporting clients who find themselves in breach of immigration guidance or rules and she works with them closely to improve their systems. She also works with the firm’s commercial team to ensure that terms and conditions comply with Home Office requirements.

When Penny is not at a client site, she is based in the London office. She has been practising UK immigration law since 2003 and worked as a registered migration agent in Australia before this. A frequent speaker on immigration law and compliance, Penny is often called upon to provide immigration risk assessments to institutions’ internal audit committees. In addition, she is a regular speaker for UKCISA and volunteers on its sponsor compliance helpline.

Recent work highlights

Sponsor compliance audit

Working with a major UK university on a mock UKVI audit to find weaknesses in their system and provide best practice recommendations, which resulted in the university maintaining their licence after a UKVI audit.

Skilled Worker sponsor licence

Representing a charity sector client when a licence had lapsed over a year ago and there were still employees who were sponsored, which meant having the licence re-instated and regularising the immigration permission for those sponsored.

UKVI action plan

Working with an education provider to have their licence reinstated after being issued with an action plan and providing training to the institution including their board.

Prevention of illegal working

Working with a corporate client in the hospitality sector and our employment team when it was discovered that an employee had fraudulently used someone else’s sharecode and date of birth as evidence of their right to work in the UK.

Sponsor licence revocation

Assisting an independent school client in having an intention to revoke a sponsor licence overturned.

Partnership arrangements

Advising on complex partnership arrangements between UK universities and private education providers.

Care sector compliance audit

Undertaking an in-depth immigration audit and advising on changes that were required to ensure UKVI compliance.

Complex Global Talent extension

Working on a complex Tech Nation extension application which was submitted and approved within a very tight deadline.

Bespoke training

Providing in-depth training to a retail sector client on Skilled Worker compliance and right to work checks to ensure uniform processes across multiple locations.

UKVI interview preparations

Working with a client in the tech sector to submit a Skilled Worker application including successfully training them on the pre-licence UKVI audit interview process.

Care sector compliance audit

Undertaking an in-depth immigration audit and advising on changes that were required to ensure UKVI compliance.

Complex Global Talent extension

Working on a complex Tech Nation extension application which was submitted and approved within a very tight deadline.

Bespoke training

Providing in-depth training to a retail sector client on Skilled Worker compliance and right to work checks to ensure uniform processes across multiple locations.

UKVI interview preparations

Working with a client in the tech sector to submit a Skilled Worker application including successfully training them on the pre-licence UKVI audit interview process.

What people are saying

Penny can always be relied on to provide an excellent training session on UK immigration complexities.

UKCISA conference delegate feedback

Penny’s insights and practical tips were very relevant and useful.

Education client

Penny provides ‘clear and concise advice’ and is ‘extremely knowledgeable’.

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