Immigration Compliance

Our specialist team of advisers can provide pragmatic and detailed advice on the best corporate immigration solution for your international business needs.

Immigration Compliance

For employers, maintaining immigration compliance is crucial when hiring international workers. Failing to perform mandatory checks or adhere to strict procedures to prevent unauthorized employment can lead to severe penalties, both civil and criminal, as well as future restrictions on sponsoring overseas workers in the UK.

UK-based employers recruiting international talent must rigorously uphold immigration compliance. Privity Partners offers a specialized compliance audit service tailored for UK employers, designed to help your organization avoid significant fines and protect your professional reputation.

Our immigration compliance services include:

  • An in-person consultation with your key staff to review your processes and procedures, ensuring they meet the relevant immigration requirements.
  • A comprehensive evaluation of your HR systems and practices, including document verification and record-keeping, to pinpoint any immigration-related compliance risks.
  • Detailed examination and audit reports of selected migrant employee files to verify the proper implementation of your processes and policies.
  • Identification of any missing documentation for migrant employees and recommendations for corrective measures.
  • A detailed audit report with customized advice, specific recommendations, and actionable steps to enhance your compliance procedures.

Additionally, Privity Partners can deliver tailored in-house training. This training ensures that

your key personnel and recruitment teams are well-versed in the legalities of migrant

employment in the UK, various immigration permission categories, necessary document

checks, and fulfilling Tier 2 and Tier 5 sponsor obligations, including reporting and record-

keeping.

When is an Immigration Compliance Audit most relevant?

An immigration compliance audit can occur at any time during the life of a sponsor licence and at application stage. It should be considered for your organisation under any of these scenarios:

  • You’re applying for a sponsor license for the first time.
  • You’re in the process of renewing your sponsor license.
  • The Home Office has planned a visit to your premises.
  • Your sponsor license has been downgraded to a B level.
  • Your organization lacks robust immigration compliance systems or processes.
  • You’re concerned about the immigration status of some employees and are uncertain how to address these issues.

How we help

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Areas of focus

Partner & Family Visas

UK Family Visa allows you to bring family members (eligible foreign nationals) to join you in the UK for an extended period of 6 months or more. You can bring your spouse or partner, fiance or proposed civil partner, child, parent, or a relative to who you will provide long-term care.

Global Business Mobility Visas

The Global Business Mobility visa is an umbrella category of five different types of UK work visas. These visas are designed for employees of overseas companies to undertake specific types of work or assignments in the UK.

Short Term Visit Visas

Our lawyers act for schools, colleges and universities across the world. We understand your context and are able to advise on any legal and regulatory matters, as well as international projects.

Short Term Work Visas

The UK Temporary Worker Visa is a work visa that permits you to work in the UK temporarily. The time you can stay in the UK for a Temporary Worker Visa varies depending on the category you apply for and ranges from 6 months to 2 years.

EEA Nationals & Family

EEA nationals are required to obtain leave to enter or remain in order to visit or live in the UK. Unless a person is coming to the UK for a short visit, they will need to apply for a visa in advance of their arrival.

business Visas

Whether you wish to recruit a foreign worker, establish a UK branch of an overseas company or effect an intra-company transfer, our immigration barristers can assist. Our expertise covers immigration routes for individual investors and entrepreneurs, small and medium businesses, as well as multinational companies.

Global Talent Visas

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Settlement in the UK

Often people want to come to the UK to settle in the UK, without a specific idea as to what they want to do when they are here. In fact, our clients regularly ask us, what is the quickest way to settle in the UK?

British Citizenship

With British citizenship you can apply for a British passport and you will be free of immigration control, allowing you to travel into and out of the UK freely without the need for a visa.

Student & Graduate Visas

The UK Graduate visa allows international students to remain in the UK after completing their studies for up to two years, or three for doctoral graduates.

Immigration appeals

If your UK visa or immigration application has been refused, our immigration appeal lawyers can advise you on the merits of appealing to the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber), prepare your immigration appeal and represent you at your immigration appeal hearing.

Human Rights

Applications for leave to enter or remain in the UK can be made, in certain circumstances, on the basis that to require the individual to leave the UK or to not allow them entry into the UK would be a breach of the individual’s human rights.

Asylum & Protection

Applications for leave to enter or remain in the UK can be made, in certain circumstances, on the basis that to require the individual to leave the UK or to not allow them entry into the UK would be a breach of the individual’s human rights.

Hong Kong (BNO) Visa

The Hong Kong BN(O) route allows BN(O) status holders and certain family members to live, work and study in the UK. After 5 years, applicants will be able to apply for settlement, and after a further year, British citizenship, providing they meet the requirements.

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