We offer advice and representation on all aspects of immigration, asylum and nationality law. We provide a practical service tailored to the specific needs of our clients and innovative solutions when a client presents us with a complex matter.
At Privity Partners, our skilled team of immigration solicitors offers comprehensive and specialist advice for both personal and business immigration needs.
We assist individuals and families in navigating the complexities of visiting and moving to the UK, ensuring we explore all available options to find the best solution tailored to your unique circumstances. Our guidance goes beyond immediate immigration concerns, encompassing long-term planning for indefinite leave to remain (settlement) and British citizenship. Collaborating closely with our dedicated teams in personal and corporate immigration, we provide holistic advice on all facets of relocating and settling in the UK.
Our proficient immigration solicitors are equipped to advise on all categories of personal and individual entry clearance (visa) applications, as well as leave to remain in the UK, settlement and British citizenship. Whether you face complex immigration challenges or simply seek expert assistance to streamline your application process, Privity Partners is committed to offering support and alleviating the stress of immigration procedures.
Our expert immigration team can guide you through a wide spectrum of personal immigration matters, including:
At Privity Partners, we are dedicated to ensuring that your journey through the UK immigration process is as smooth and stress-free as possible.
Holding a Sponsor Licence allows UK businesses to recruit skilled workers that are overseas nationals, but it also imposes strict and ongoing compliance duties. In 2025, the Home Office has intensified enforcement activity, with more unannounced compliance visits and increased scrutiny of whether sponsors are meeting their obligations. This article highlights the most common compliance […]
On 14 October 2025, the Home Office laid a new set of changes to the UK’s immigration rules, following the publication in May 2025 of the Immigration White Paper titled Restoring Control over the Immigration System. A central change affecting economic migration is the increase in the English Language requirement for several key work routes. […]
If you are applying as a dependent partner under the Points-Based System (PBS) route, such as Skilled Worker, Student, Health and care worker or Global talent, you must provide evidence to the Home Office that your relationship with your partner is genuine and subsisting. The rules derive from Appendix Relationship with Partner and apply to […]
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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