Business immigration

Strategic immigration advice for businesses and individuals

We advise businesses and individuals on UK business immigration and nationality matters, with a particular focus on senior executives, internationally mobile employees and organisations operating across borders.

Our advice is practical, strategic and closely aligned with our clients’ commercial and professional objectives.

Our executive immigration expertise

We regularly advise on:

  • UK business immigration and nationality matters

  • Sponsorship and compliance for employers

  • Immigration planning for senior executives and key personnel

  • Cross-border intra-group transfers

  • Long-term immigration strategy, including settlement planning

Visas and status

We advise on a wide range of UK immigration routes, including:

  • Skilled Worker and other sponsored work visas

  • Temporary and specialist visa categories

  • Intra-group transfer arrangements

  • Indefinite leave to remain and permanent residence

  • Investor and entrepreneur routes

  • Creative, sports and specialist professional visas

  • Immigration issues for individuals establishing a business in the UK

Selected experience

Examples of our executive immigration experience include advising:

  • A global oil company on the immigration and settlement position of a senior executive

  • An international US trading company on frequent cross-border transfers between the UK and the US

  • A charity on obtaining appropriate visas for employees without the right to work in the UK

  • A digital and web-based business on securing sponsorship status and challenging a refusal to extend a sponsored worker visa

  • “Timely, efficient and enormously helpful. I would have no hesitation in recommending her for executive immigration advice.”

    Chris Lee Kim

Connect with our business immigration law expert

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Jessica Learmond-Criqui

Partner

Phone: +44 (0) 20 7794 5992

Email: jlc@lawlcs.com

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