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THE UK’S LEADING IMMIGRATION BARRISTER FIRM

Tel: +44(0)203 617 9173 Fax: +44(0)203 004 1611 Email: [email protected] www.richmondchambers.com WHY CHOOSE US? WHAT WE DO contents We’ve helped scores of individuals and Our multi-award winning immigration Why choose us? 03 …with Richmond businesses obtain visas for the UK and/or barristers provide expert and challenge Home Office immigration decisions. representation, directly to individuals and What we do 03 you get real Our immigration barristers bring years of businesses, in relation to all aspects of UK Investment migration 04 barristers who are at the knowledge and experience to the table. . top of their profession Family migration 05 and understand the We work hard to understand our clients’ plans We assist individuals with the full range of and objectives. Then we put together the right personal immigration matters, from preparing EEA nationals and family 06 legal system very well. We would highly team, with the right mix of skills, languages and visa applications to enter and remain in the UK, Work visas 07 experience, to help our clients get to where to providing representation at appeals before recommend them. they want to be as easily and cost-effectively the immigration and higher . Short stay visas 08 as possible. Ehab Shouly Study visas 09 Our immigration barristers provide We combine the We’re obsessed with excellence and clear business decision makers with a range of Settlement in the UK 10 expertise and quality communication is vital to what we do. Our business immigration services, from of the , with the barristers work closely with our clients, to make preparing sponsor licence applications, to British citizenship 11 service levels of sure that they always know what’s going on and visa applications for employees and advice on Human rights and refugee protection 12 a trusted law firm. that everything is delivered on time. compliance management. Sponsor licensing 13 Our barristers are passionate about Our approach is distinctly innovative. Working Sponsor compliance 14 immigration law and bring enthusiasm and directly with our clients, we combine the commitment to every case they work on. We expertise and quality of the Bar with the service care about our clients and always go the extra levels of a trusted law firm. mile to ensure that everything is ‘just right’.

2 3 INVESTMENT MIGRATION Not only did they get The service provided was FAMILY MIGRATION us the result needed outstanding in all areas: (Tier 1 extension), but expertise, organization, Richmond Chambers is widely recognised as Our investment migration team works closely RECENT WORK HIGHLIGHTS: the results were based speed of response to Our immigration barristers regularly assist RECENT WORK HIGHLIGHTS: one of the UK’s leading immigration practices with investors, wealth managers and leading on a thorough and very our questions, support foreign national spouses, civil partners, for investors and entrepreneurs. We were banks to prepare and submit high quality visa • Our barristers assisted a high net worth structured methodology. and management of our unmarried partners, fiancé(e)s, proposed • Our immigration barristers assisted a awarded ‘Business Immigration Chambers of applications for investors and their families. citizen of to relocate to the UK by We felt informed and case from start to finish. civil partners, children and adult dependent citizen of the Philippines and her daughter the Year in ’ at the 2018 Corporate preparing a successful application for a relatives to relocate to, and settle in, the to ensure that their spouse and child visa Our team of immigration barristers is confident throughout Highly recommended. Intl Magazine Global Awards, ‘UK Business UK Tier 1 (Investor) visa. UK with their British citizen or settled applications were approved. also experienced in assisting all types of the process. Immigration Barrister of the Year’ at the Mark Wallace family members. entrepreneurs. Whether you are considering • We assisted a family from Russia to • Richmond Chambers successfully ACQ5 Law Awards 2018 and ‘Business Hatem Dowidar setting up and running a new business in Immigration Set of the Year’ at the Global Law extend their stay in the UK under the Whether you require expert advice on the represented a citizen of Pakistan in her the UK or looking to invest in an established Experts Awards 2017. Tier 1 (Investor) visa route using UKVI’s requirements of the Immigration Rules, an appeal against a decision of the Home business, our barristers are experts in the Super Premium Service. independent assessment of your prospects Office to refuse her unmarried partner Our work on behalf of investors and immigration options for entrepreneurs and of qualifying for a family visa or professional visa application. entrepreneurs has also been recognised through can guide you through the complex Home • Our investment migration team worked assistance with preparing a family visa membership of the Investment Migration Office rules and policies. with a businessperson from the UAE to application or appeal, our immigration • Our family migration team were Council and the Department of International secure a Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) visa to set barristers can help. successful in overturning two decisions Trade’s Investor Support Network. up and run a business in the UK. of the Home Office to refuse to grant Adult Dependent Relative visas to our • Our immigration barristers used Indian clients. Administrative Review proceedings to successfully overturn a Home Office finding that our Bangladeshi client was not a genuine entrepreneur. 4 5 EEA NATIONALS AND FAMILY Richmond Chambers As an employer, I decided WORK VISAS was incredibly to use Richmond professional and Chamber’s services Our immigration barristers have assisted RECENT WORK HIGHLIGHTS: supportive from start to apply for a visa Our team of business immigration barristers RECENT WORK HIGHLIGHTS: scores of EEA nationals and their family to finish, helping me extension for one of our has experience in assisting employers and members to exercise their rights of free • The EEA team at Richmond Chambers understand the UK key employees. I found skilled workers across a variety of industries • Our immigration barristers assisted the movement in the UK. assisted a citizen of the US to obtain an requirements for EEA their approach to be and in companies of all sizes. Director of a fashion design company to EEA Family Permit based on her durable relocate to the UK on a Tier 2 (General) visa. From applying for EEA Family Permits to enter Family permits, advise consistently confident From skilled workers looking to take up new relationship with a Polish national. the UK, to obtaining documents from the on the supporting and unflappable, opportunities in the UK, to employees of • We assisted a senior employee of a major Home Office to confirm a right of residence • Our specialist EEA barristers assisted the documentation responding to queries multinational companies transfering to a UK chemical manufacturing company in or permanent residence, we understand the partner of an EEA national to overturn a needed, and review and acknowledging branch and senior employees of overseas Pakistan to obtain a Sole Representative complexities of the EEA and bring determination of the First tier Tribunal my application before receipt of documents businesses seeking to establish a UK branch of an Overseas Business visa. an in-depth knowledge of both domestic and that his marriage was one of convenience. submission. quickly and efficiently.... or subsidiary, we can help ensure that your international case-law. career progresses in full compliance with UK • Our immigration barristers assisted • Our barristers helped a dependent a senior client manager for a global Katherine Michonski Care4U Pharmacy Ltd immigration law. Whether you require expert advice on the descendant over 21 submit a fresh software distribution company to requirements of the EEA Regulations, an application to secure a Permanent Whether you require expert advice on your relocate to the UK with a Tier 2 (Intra independent assessment of your prospects Residence Card. work visa options under the UK’s Immigration Company Transfer) visa. of qualifying for an EEA residence document Rules, an independent assessment of your or professional assistance with preparing an • We won an appeal against a decision of prospects of qualifying for a work visa or • Richmond Chambers assisted a theatre EEA residence card application or appeal, our the Home Office to refuse to issue an EEA professional assistance with preparing a work actor to obtain a Tier 1 (Exceptional immigration barristers can help. Permanent Residence Card on the basis visa application or review, our immigration Promise) endorsement. of self-employment. barristers can help.

6 7 SHORT STAY VISAS Superb knowledge and Professional and STUDY VISAS professional service detailed. Richmond – simply excellent. Chambers has a way of Our immigration barristers are experienced in RECENT WORK HIGHLIGHTS: Richmond Chambers making you feel at ease Our immigration barristers regularly RECENT WORK HIGHLIGHTS: assisting with all types of visit visa applications. provides outstanding and confident about assist international students to move to, • Our barristers assisted two US dancers or extend their stay in, the UK in order to • We represented a citizen of Whether you are considering travelling to the to give a paid performance in the UK by service and their your immigration . pursue their education. in his application for entry clearance UK for a holiday, to visit friends and family, successfully applying for Permitted Paid knowledge of the UK Their thoroughness as a Tier 4 (General) migrant to to undertake a business trip or short paid If you are over the age of 16 and have been Engagement visas. complete an MSc in Computer Science engagement, to get married or to receive immigration process and and professionalism is offered an unconditional place on a course at Middlesex University. private medical treatment, our barristers can • Our immigration barristers successfully law is unmatched. compared to none. with an educational institution holding a Tier advise you as to the most appropriate visit visa challenged a decision of UK Visas & 4 Sponsor Licence then you may qualify for a • Our immigration barristers assisted a Andrea Lewis Ayodoji Ogundipe and guide you through the requirements of the Immigration to refuse to grant a business Tier 4 (General) Student visa. Children aged citizen of Pakistan to secure further leave Immigration Rules. visit visa to our Kenyan client. between 4 and 17 years old can apply for a to remain as a Tier 4 (General) Student to Tier 4 (Child) Student visa. study a Postgraduate Dental Foundation If your application for a visit visa has been • We helped a client from Nigeria visit the Programme at Health Education refused, our immigration barristers can advise Our barristers are experts in the immigration UK in order to receive private medical South . on the merits of, and assist with, making a fresh treatment. options for students and will guide you application or challenging the decision through the Immigration Rules in order to • Richmond Chambers was instructed • Richmond Chambers secured a visit visa ensure that you can start your course of study in a Tier 4 (Child) Student extension for a citizen of China to visit his family on time. application to allow a 14 year old in the UK despite a finding of previous Iranian citizen to continue his studies at

deception in an immigration application. Collingham Independent GCSE & Sixth Form College.

8 9 SETTLEMENT IN THE UK Richmond Chambers Richmond Chambers BRITISH CITIZENSHIP came out head and Immigration Barristers shoulders above the are professional, Our immigration barristers regularly advise RECENT WORK HIGHLIGHTS: rest. We were carefully competent, friendly, Our immigration barristers have RECENT WORK HIGHLIGHTS: and assist foreign nationals to secure guided through the and supportive. experience assisting with all types of indefinite leave to remain in the UK. • We successfully applied for indefinite British nationality matters. • Members of our nationality team leave to remain for an Australian client whole settlement visa Sheng Yue prepared 3 naturalisation applications for The UK offers various routes to settlement Whether you are looking to apply for based on 5 years residence as a partner in procedure and no stone our South African clients, applying via the by investment, by working in the UK, as naturalisation on your own or on the basis the UK with his British wife. nationality checking service. the family member of a British or settled was left unturned. of your marriage to a British citizen, or person and based on long residence. register a claim to British citizenship either • Our immigration barristers represented John Rogerson • Our immigration barristers assisted a a Saudi national in his appeal against a by entitlement or at the discretion of the Chinese child who was born in the UK Whether you require expert advice on the decision to refuse his application for ILR Secretary of State, our barristers can guide and had lived here for over 10 years to requirements of the Immigration Rules, an based on 10 years long residence due to you through the complexities of British register as a British citizen. independent assessment of your prospects excess absences. The appeal was allowed. nationality law. of qualifying for settlement or professional • We advised adult American siblings on assistance with preparing an application or • Richmond Chambers assisted a Tier 1 If your application for British citizenship has the prospects of registering as British appeal with a view to qualifying for indefinite (Entrepreneur) from Jordan to obtain been refused, our immigration barristers citizens by descent through their mother leave to remain, our immigration barristers accelerated settlement in the UK based can advise on the merits of seeking a when, at the time of birth, it was only can help. on having created 10 new jobs. reconsideration of the decision and, if possible for citizenship by descent to be appropriate, assist with preparing an passed through their father. application for reconsideration.

10 11 HUMAN RIGHTS & REFUGEE PROTECTION Amazing, Amazing, Throughout the process SPONSOR LICENSING Amazing. From start the quality of advice we to finish the team from received was excellent Our immigration barristers have extensive RECENT WORK HIGHLIGHTS: Richmond Chambers … We found everyone Our business immigration barristers assist RECENT WORK HIGHLIGHTS: experience preparing high quality human were professional, in the team to be UK employers to obtain the right sponsor rights-based / asylum applications and • The Richmond Chambers immigration licence, maintain their licence at the highest • Our immigration barristers assisted successfully appealing against decisions of the team assisted a family from Pakistan to empathetic, supportive polite, professional and rating and comply with their sponsor duties. a marketing company to conduct a Home Office on human rights / asylum grounds. secure leave to remain in the UK on the and extremely conscientious. compliant Resident Labour Market Test Whether you require advice on the correct basis of their private and family life. and obtain a sponsor licence, following an Our barristers are experts on the immigration knowledgeable. company-related documentation to provide Tom Gaydon earlier rejection. options for individuals seeking to remain in in support of a sponsor licence application, • We acted for a Nigeria national in her Renee Annon the UK on human rights grounds and will guide appeal against a refusal of leave to remain assistance with drafting a compelling • Richmond Chambers obtained a you through the Home Office rules, policies in the UK with her British Citizen partner business case that will satisfy UKVI that Sponsor Licence for a specialist health and case-law. We have assisted individuals and children. you need a sponsor licence in order to fill research consultancy. from throughout the world to seek and obtain a genuine role or guidance on running a international protection in the UK. • We successfully assisted a student from compliant RLMT, our immigration barristers • Our immigration barristers assisted Syria to seek international protection can manage the sponsor licence application a software development company to We pride ourselves on being approachable and following the completion of his studies at process on your behalf. obtain a Tier 2 (Intra Company Transfer) proactive in understanding and meeting our a UK university. sponsor licence. clients’ needs. We also assist employers to identify and • Our immigration barristers acted for two remedy caseworker errors in sponsor unaccompanied asylum seeking children licence refusal, suspension and revocation from Iran who were granted refugee decisions, if necessary through bringing status on account of their conversion judicial review proceedings. to Christianity. 12 13 SPONSOR COMPLIANCE The services provided by Richmond Chambers are worth every penny. They Our immigration barristers are well versed RECENT WORK HIGHLIGHTS: demonstrated a very in all the required right to work checks professional approach at that employers must undertake. We work • Our immigration barristers successfully closely with businesses to ensure that assisted our client, an employer with each and every step of their HR processes are robust and can help a significant graduate recruitment the case, with amazing to design and audit current right to work programme, to have its sponsor licence response times. checks in the workplace. We will simplify fully reinstated following a suspension. the process for you and help to protect you Kashif Lakhani and your business from any immigration • Richmond Chambers assisted our import/ compliance issues. export business client to respond to a Home Office investigatory letter without If you have been issued with a Notification any further Home Office visit. of Liability for a Civil Penalty, our immigration barristers can advise as to the likelihood of establishing a statutory excuse. We also assist with submitting objections to the Civil Penalty Compliance Team and provide legal representation at civil penalty appeals in the County .

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