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on September 11, 2024
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The UK immigration system has long been notoriously complex, and often challenging to navigate for individuals of a broad range of backgrounds and circumstances. Indeed, amid political pressures in recent years to reduce migration numbers to the UK, those challenges and complexities might well have intensified lately, instead of relenting.
On such a backdrop, if you are a non-UK national who wishes to visit or migrate to the UK – or for that matter, to study, work, and/or settle in this immensely rewarding Western European country – you are likely to appreciate having the benefit of an immigration lawyer’s expertise.
Can we genuinely claim to be the best immigration law firm in the UK?
You might very much expect us here at Cranbrook Legal to claim we are the UK’s leading immigration law firm. However, we also have excellent grounds on which to make this claim! Established in 2015 and staffed with specialists in immigration law who possess over a quarter-century’s experience in the UK immigration sector, we have developed a stellar reputation in this field.
However, you don’t have to take our word for it; the most important people to ask about our credibility as a UK immigration law firm will always be our clients themselves.
At the time of writing this article, we enjoy an “Excellent” rating of 5.0 out of five stars on Trustpilot, a 4.9 rating on google reviews fro over 700+ reviews. Furthermore, you are welcome to browse our success stories by visa category to discover how we have assisted past clients of ours to claim asylum, get approved for British citizenship, and obtain visas such as the Skilled Worker visa, the spouse visa, the self-sponsorship visa, the Innovator Founder visa, and the Global Talent visa. For this piece, however, we decided to delve deeper into the specifics of our services, which help to explain how we achieve consistently high success rates across all the aforementioned immigration categories, and many more. It certainly doesn’t happen by accident!
This is a very understandable and valid question, and many people decide that they would prefer to try to handle their own UK immigration application, asylum claim, or appeal. They may reach such a conclusion on the grounds of cost, or they may believe their intended immigration application is simple enough to not “require” a lawyer’s services.
In practice, however, there are many potential reasons why it often makes a lot of sense to seek out the services of reputable specialists in UK immigration law, such as our experts at Cranbrook Legal.
Below are just some of the reasons why it is frequently very much “worth” using a qualified and capable immigration lawyer:
Not only is the legal landscape of UK immigration often complicated and challenging to navigate, but it is also ever-changing.
By arranging for a professional to advise and guide you on your immigration application or appeal – and potentially even to project manage it from start to finish – you can make sure a skilled individual will be handling your case in accordance with the latest UK rules and regulations.
As we touched on above, UK immigration law can be extremely multilayered and complex. Whether your contact with the UK immigration system involves trying to obtain a work, study, or family visa, or you are an employer seeking a sponsor licence – to cite just some of the possibilities – it can be very easy to trip up on the various application requirements.
If you attempt to handle your immigration application, claim, or appeal by yourself without an immigration solicitor by your side, you might easily misunderstand the eligibility criteria, documentation requirements, and/or the fees and charges you may need to pay.
Yes, there is a certain amount that you can do prior to approaching experts in UK immigration law such as the professionals making up Cranbrook Legal’s award-winning team. You might read the various information about the specific immigration or visa pathway(s) that most interest you on the GOV.UK website, before contacting us for tailored advice and guidance.
However, even if English is your native language, there can be a lot of difficult-to-understand legal jargon contained in the various guidance documents on the UK Home Office website, and you might still have a lot of questions. So, instructing a highly trained legal professional to handle your case can contribute greatly to making the whole process easier.
Let’s face it: if you are contemplating migrating to the UK (or extending your permission to be in the UK if you are a foreign national already living and/or working here), even if you are confident in your ability to satisfy the eligibility criteria for your chosen pathway, you might still be very intimidated by the process.
Furthermore, it is highly understandable that you may feel intimidated, if you are genuinely unsure about the right decisions to take. You might be uncertain as to whether you are pursuing the most suitable visa route for your circumstances and needs, or you may be worried about the strength of your immigration application, or whether you should pursue an appeal.
It is frequently said that “knowledge is power”, and this can certainly be the case when it comes to navigating the UK’s immigration system. By engaging the services of a reputable UK immigration law firm with a track record of assisting clients to successful outcomes, you can help ensure you make all the right decisions at every stage, guided by the best-qualified experts. This, in turn, can help minimise much of the risk that you may face when attempting to get the result you desire from your UK immigration application, claim, or appeal.
We could write all day about the many things that make us the top immigration law firm in the UK! Below, however, are just some of the major reasons for our industry-leading status:
Whether you are looking to claim asylum in the UK, or work in the country via a route such as the Skilled Worker visa or the Health and Care Worker visa, or your situation relates to overstaying or another complex case, you can be sure that we will help you achieve a positive outcome.
You can be confident in us accomplishing this for you, because of our track record of doing so for many other foreign nationals who have moved to the UK – or extended their stay – with our help in the past.
If a UK employer wishes to hire someone from outside the UK to work for them, it will usually be necessary for them to get approved for a sponsor licence from the Home Office.
Similar to other parts of the UK immigration system, the Home Office rules for sponsor licences impose various stringent requirements that applicants must fulfil. These include having well-developed arrangements for monitoring sponsored workers, as well as appointing appropriate people to manage sponsorship within the sponsoring organisation.
Our central London-based immigration firm has an excellent reputation for its project management of all manner of UK organisations’ sponsor licence applications.
Furthermore, we can provide related services – such as training in the use of the sponsorship management system, and immigration audits – to help ensure your organisation stays compliant and does not risk having its sponsor licence suspended and/or revoked.
We have written in the past here on the Cranbook Legal online news section about the factors that have long made the UK an attractive part of the world for businesspeople. These encompass the country’s status as one of the world’s biggest economies in terms of gross domestic product (GDP), as well as its highly skilled worker base, and its advantageous geographical location at a crossroads of major international trade routes.
However, with the UK immigration system being so liable to constant change, it might not be clear to you which would constitute the best pathway for you to come to this country and thrive as a business owner or entrepreneur.
With our hard-won knowhow and experience in such immigration pathways as the Innovator Founder visa, the Global Business Mobility visa, and the self-sponsorship visa here at Cranbrook Legal, we can advise on your situation. We can guide and assist you through every stage of relocating to the UK for entrepreneurial purposes, so that you can tap into the many exciting business opportunities in this area of the globe.
Giving careful thought to the following factors can help narrow down your options when you are comparing UK immigration law firms to assist with your move to – or extension of stay in – the UK:
Ask yourself: does the UK immigration law firm that you are considering have a high level of expertise in the field of immigration law that interests you, such as personal immigration or business immigration?
Furthermore, when you Google the firm’s name, does it seem to have a strong industry reputation? Is the law firm regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), which is the regulatory body for solicitors in England and Wales? If the answers to these questions are “yes”, this should help give you further peace of mind.
Naturally, if you are considering engaging the services of an immigration law firm, you will want to choose a business that has a strong track record of achieving success for its clients in the specific immigration or visa category of relevance to you.
You can begin to get a sense of this by reading through any testimonials, case studies, or “success stories” detailed on the law firm’s own website. By perusing these as well as checking out the reviews on third-party platforms such as Google and Trustpilot, you can greatly strengthen your chances of selecting a law firm with a genuinely formidable track record.
If you have any lingering questions about a given law firm’s success rate for a particular visa or immigration category, or in relation to any other aspect of their services, please don’t be afraid to reach out to them and ask them.
Hopefully, you will already be aware of the distinction between the fees that the UK Home Office might charge you for a particular immigration or visa application, and the fees that your chosen law firm will charge for its services.
The exact costs you can expect to pay will depend on such factors as the complexity of your case and the legal professional or firm that you entrust with your case.
The specific immigration service that interests you might be provided on a pre-agreed fixed fee basis – which could help you budget for your application – or the fees may be calculated on an hourly basis. Whatever the specific fees policy may be for the immigration law firm you’re considering, you should seek out an organisation that practises a reassuringly transparent fees policy. In other words, there should be no nasty extra “hidden charges” that you only find out about later.
For an in-depth discussion of your circumstances and requirements with suitably qualified and renowned specialists in UK immigration law, you don’t need to wait any longer. Call 0208 215 0053 now, or complete and submit our online contact form to arrange a free consultation.
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