Shradha Virji

Shradha’s expertise includes working with many multinational organisations on their immigration and global mobility needs. She works closely with HR teams in and outside of the UK to manage cross-border recruitment. The scope of her work includes supporting and advising businesses on their Home Office obligations and complex prevention of illegal working scenarios.

Shradha’s knowledge of individual migration is extensive, and she has advised on many complex Innovator and Expansion Worker applications. She has particular expertise in advising overseas nationals on establishing businesses in the UK and sourcing overseas labour.

Recent Work

• Obtaining a sponsor licence for a large scale multi-national solar and hybrid power projects company enabling highly skilled project managers, construction managers, engineers, and other specialist workers to work on UK under the Skilled Worker route.
• Main point of contact for all migrant worker enquiries for several renewable energy companies.
• Providing Right to Work advice, bespoke sponsor compliance training and audit for renewable energy companies.

Recent work

• Providing ongoing support to HR teams in relation to Right to Work obligations and overseas sponsorship.
• Advised the UK’s largest building merchant on the effects of a corporate restructure on its sponsor licence.
• Successfully applied for a new sponsor licence and transfer of employees from one corporate entity to another following a TUPE transfer which had been incorrectly reported to the Home Office. This led to the Home Office imposing a narrow timeframe to secure the sponsor licence and conclude the transfer, failure to comply would have resulted in revocation of the company’s existing licence and curtailment of the work visas.

Recent Work

• Providing ongoing Right to Work advice, securing sponsor licences and Skilled Worker visas for many architectural, accountancy and financial practices based in the City of London.

Recent Work

• Advised several 5-star hotels on employee retention and status of EU staff pre and post Brexit.
• Successfully secured a sponsor licence for a food and beverage retailer enabling them to transfer existing staff from an overseas linked entity to the UK on Skilled Worker visas.

Recent Work

• Providing advice for Aldi Stores in respect of Right to Work issues and HR policies ensuring compliance and reducing the risk of Home Office enforcement action and reputational damage.
• Successfully challenging 10 civil penalties for 2 Sisters Food Group Limited for illegal working and undertaking litigation to reduce the penalty incurred from £200,000 to £30,000, saving the client significant sums and reputational damage.
• Securing a sponsor licence for a multi-national gym franchise and successfully transferring senior employees to the UK to establish and expand the UK based franchise.