I joined the team as a NQ Solicitor in June 2014 and currently sit within the Management Team as a Senior Associate, specialising in UK Business immigration and employee-related immigration.
I enjoy working closely with Global Mobility teams and HR personnel to provide them with the guidance in an ever-changing landscape, supporting them with mobility planning aligned with their business needs.
I assist companies with their initial sponsor licence applications and provide ongoing support and guidance in relation to their sponsor obligations, which includes ensuring robust processes are in place for compliant right-to-work practices; supporting teams to ensure processes are in place to enable suitable monitoring of sponsored employees; and that relevant reporting is captured with the Home Office. As well, I support companies with Home Office Audits and offering Mock Audits and Health-Checks to ensure businesses stay on top of the compliance piece under the Skilled Worker visa route.
I also advise and support individuals and families with their Skilled Worker and Global Business Mobility visas. Although these are the primary routes to work in the UK, I also supporting applicants across the spectrum of categories, which includes but not limited to, the Temporary Workers, Graduates, UK Ancestry, Settlement and Family etc.
In addition, I have many years of experience supporting Private Clients with applications to become British Citizens under the British Nationality Act 1981. I really enjoy the history in the Nationality Act, often requiring historic status tracing to understand if an individual has a path to registration, which can derive through generations and colonies. I also support applicants with discretionary submissions for citizenship and really enjoy working with applicants to build their cases for consideration by the Nationality Team; finally supporting individuals with their British passport applications – submissions from overseas or from within the UK.
- Team: UK Immigration
- Based: London
Interest
- Cooking
- Football
- Live Music
- Theatre
- Reading
Notable experience
- Working closely with HR departments to understand the business needs for each new hire to establish the best route forward for both the business and the employee
- Advising corporate institutions on the importance of ongoing compliance under the Points based system and providing guidance on the responsibilities and obligations to be undertaken
- Conducting mock audits and file reviews, plus provide training sessions to HR departments and recruitment teams on UKVI guidance and updates
- Assisting corporates with updating the UKVI on structure changes, whether it be mergers, share sales or acquisitions, plus ensuring sponsored TUPE’d staff are appropriately reported
- Conducting mock audits and file reviews, plus provide training sessions to HR departments and recruitment teams on UKVI guidance and updates
- Present BREXIT workshops across the business sectors, providing updates on the Government’s developments and highlighting the options available to Europeans and their family members
- Advising on numerous family cases: spouse, civil and unmarried partner, children including surrogacy and adoption
- Advising on the various routes to British citizenship, including complex naturalisation and registration applications