Immigration Training

Get expert training from our immigration visa specialists on sponsor licences, right to work compliance and potential UK immigration options.

Immigration Training

At Privity Partners, we recognize the crucial role of immigration compliance training in enhancing the internal efficiency and effective risk management. We are committed to fulfilling your diverse immigration training requirements, enhancing the expertise of your internal teams, particularly key human resources personnel. This focus is pivotal in meeting your obligations as a UK employer and in avoiding the potential scrutiny and penalties from the Home Office.

Our approach to immigration training is designed to yield significant returns through the enhanced efficiency and effectiveness of your immigration practices. This strategy not only reduces the costs but also minimizes the risks associated with managing a migrant workforce. Working alongside your team, we assess current skill levels, set benchmarks, and offer tailored immigration courses, training, and mentoring for both personal and professional development.

Understanding that knowledge and skill levels can vary across teams, we offer a range of training options. These include introductory sessions for new staff, refresher courses for existing employees, advanced courses for deepening specific knowledge areas, and comprehensive seminars on new developments and regulations. Our goal is to facilitate career advancement while addressing knowledge gaps, operational inefficiencies, and process shortcomings.

Privity Partners prides itself on a highly adaptable approach to immigration training. We are equipped to construct a customized solution that aligns with your specific organizational needs, ensuring your team is not just informed but empowered in the realm of immigration compliance.

How we help

Overview In the UK, children born in the country who have lived here continuously for seven years may be eligible to apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR). This route acknowledges the strong ties a child develops with the UK over time and offers a path to settlement based on their best interests and long-term […]

Section 3(1) of the British Nationality Act 1981 is a crucial provision that grants the Home Secretary a broad discretionary power to register a child as a British citizen. Unlike other sections of the Act that set out clear entitlements, Section 3(1) allows for flexibility and consideration of individual circumstances. Here’s a breakdown of its […]

Overview Under UK immigration rules, a parent may be eligible for Leave to Remain if their child has lived in the UK continuously for at least 7 years and it would be unreasonable to expect the child to leave the UK. This is part of the private life route and reflects the UK’s commitment to […]

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

Well versed in both the legal and technical languages of decentralized finance, our global team can support anyone wanting to navigate the fast-changing world of blockchain, cryptocurrency and digital assets.

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.

Get in touch

Our website will give you a flavour of the advice we provide - if you would like to talk to us for more information, please contact our client services team who will be happy to assist.