Associate - Immigration

• Advise on a broad mix of business immigration and private client immigration matters
• Advising on sponsorship based visa applications
• Licensing as a sponsor with the Home Office and ongoing compliance with the sponsorship regime
• Advising on immigration routes for entrepreneurs and business people
• Immigration compliance audits
• British citizenship and indefinite leave to remain/settlement applications
• Family and dependency based visa applications
• Challenging unlawful Home Office decisions
• Immigration issues arising from corporate transactions and administrations
• Immigration issues arising from adoption and surrogacy
• Will be given significant client facing and hands on responsibility from the offset
• Will be trusted to “run with” their own cases
• Can make a real impact within an established and highly ranked team
• Will be given an excellent platform on which to progress their careers, profiles and business development acumen

• c.2 years’ experience of advising both businesses (including large multinationals) and individuals on the full range of UK immigration law
• Experience of working (for at least c.2 years) within a leading legal immigration team that is ideally ranked or at least noted for both business and personal immigration work
• Experience of supporting other professional services firms and their clients with immigration matters
• Self-starter and strong internal drive
• Proactive and sophisticated management of a mixed caseload
• Sophisticated client service delivery
• Keen to take a proactive role in marketing and business development
• Friendly and collegiate
• Ability to “run with” large business and complex individual immigration matters with minimal supervision
• Maintains good relationships with other team members
• Strong intellect
• Past supervision experience, e.g. supervising trainees, junior associates and/or paralegals a bonus
• Strong billing history and financial management skills, including regularly billing their own files
• First rate accuracy, technical and legal drafting skills

Past supervision experience, e.g. supervising trainees, junior associates and/or paralegals a bonus

• Competitive salaries and generous benefits
• Agile working policy (currently the equivalent of two days a week can be spent working at home)
• Cohort based career development programme
• Bespoke training programme at each stage of your career