Business Immigration
Your passport to success
What is involved?
Many UK based national and international companies look to the overseas market to source talent to meet their recruitment needs. Navigating the immigration system can be a challenge and drain on internal resource. At Freeths, we specialise in guiding UK businesses through the immigration system to enable you to recruit the right people into role, and in supporting overseas companies and innovators to expand into the UK market.
Our Business Immigration team are immigration experts, with over 30 years’ experience in navigating the complexities of the UK immigration system on our clients’ behalf. We will utilise this experience to ensure we achieve a successful outcome for you and your business, acting as your trusted advisors. We have a 100% success rate in securing immigration licences and work visa clearance.
With the right support, immigration can be a catalyst for growth by giving your business access to a global skilled workforce. Expanding your view of the available talent pool to the international market can give you a competitive advantage.
We are known for delivering value for our clients with industry acclaimed expertise. We have strong links with the Home Office, enabling us to keep you appraised of every relevant development in immigration law, for your industry sector.
We deliver results and have the expertise to manage licence and visa processes from end to end, making working with the immigration system as simple as possible for you and allowing you to focus on your day job.
Our experienced immigration team works with everyone from budding entrepreneurs and SMEs to the largest global brands, local authorities, and educational establishments, delivering innovative solutions to everyday challenges with UK immigration. We have over 200 business immigration clients including globally recognised brands.
We are highly experienced at working with business founders and overseas companies who wish to establish their business interests in the UK, and we can look after your personal immigration matters for you and your family, in addition to those for your business.
We cover all UK immigration matters and work with overseas advisers to provide global mobility services for other jurisdictions.
We can provide a specialist advice and training package to ensure your business remains immigration compliant and your HR team has the support they need to negotiate the complex immigration system and to stay up to speed with right to work requirements.
We offer comprehensive training for employees and HR teams dealing with the employment of overseas nationals, ensuring your business is up to date with the latest developments in right to work compliance and immigration matters. We can tailor training to meet your business requirements, ensuring your teams remain up to date in this fast-moving area, minimising business risk.
Call our immigration lawyers now to see how we can help you to use the immigration system to drive growth for your business.
Why choose Freeths?
- We specialise in business immigration; our national team of immigration experts has over 30 years’ experience in managing business immigration matters
- We provide effective, efficient advice and immigration services to national and multi-national companies, universities and public bodies
- We have worked with some of the largest global brands, delivering innovative solutions to resolve their immigration matters
- We will be your trusted advisors, with experience in all types of immigration work, we have a 100% success rate on sponsor licence and work visa applications.
- We are approachable and here to give innovative, and realistic advice, with your business interests at the heart of our recommendations
- Our fees are transparent. We offer a fair pricing structure which will be agreed with you at the outset with much of our work being delivered at fixed fees.
- We run seminars, workshops and bespoke training courses throughout the year
- We offer integration with broader legal services such as our commercial and corporate teams who can help you to run your business, our specialist IP and tech teams can assist in protecting your intellectual property and our specialist employment and pensions teams who can assist with all your HR requirements.
Business Immigration Lawyers
Emma Brooksbank
Partner
0345 166 6300
Shradha Virji
Managing Associate
0345 166 6264
Iram Noordin
Senior Associate
0345 166 6262
Irum Saleem
Associate
0345 166 6310
Karolina Olczak
Executive
0345 272 5730
Ashley Stothard
Executive
0345 166 6309
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News 7th Nov 2023- Supporting a number of UK universities to recruit from overseas and to maintain right to work compliance, most recent delivering a secondment to undertake a specialist compliance audit and advise on best practice.
- Securing an immigration licence for a multi-national, cyber security company and advising on all international recruitment matters, including securing required UK Skilled Worker visas to fill key UK roles and Schengen visas. Restructuring the licence follow the business’ restructure and completing the transfer of all sponsored employees.
- Being retained as exclusive immigration advisors for one of the UK’s main supermarkets. Advising on complex right to work matters for their HR and payroll teams and managing the retention and, at times, termination of employees with complex immigration circumstances, balancing the employment and immigration risks.
- Assisting an international manufacturing client with an internal right to work audit, undertaking interviews with key personnel, reviewing policies, records and processes and delivering their audit report and assisting in the implementation of changes.
- Securing an immigration licence for a national care home provider to enable them to recruit teams of specialist care staff to support the delivery of care packages to individuals with highly complex care needs.
- Successfully putting in place a Skilled Worker and Senior and Specialist Worker licence for a multi-national company which was in a fast growth period. Securing visa clearance to fill senior level positions which required highly specialised skills.
- Supporting a national care home group through a complex business takeover with one of the country’s largest care providers. Undertaking a full audit of immigration and right to work compliance, identifying breaches, undertaking intensive training, providing policies, and overhauling procedures, and liaising closely with the Home Office to confirm remedial action and to ensure the licence would be preserved and all sponsored employees could be retained, enabling this £10.2 million deal to complete.
- Advising a local authority on complex human rights matters for children in their care.
Client service
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Talk to us
Freeths are a leading national law firm with 13 offices across the UK. If you have a query about our services or just want to find out more, why not give us a call?
Contact: 03301 001 014