OTS Solicitors Celebrates its Inclusion in the 2024 Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession
OTS Solicitors are ranked in the 2024 UK edition of Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession. It’s a great accolade and something that we are all very proud of.
As specialist Immigration solicitors we provide a full range of legal advice on all things immigration from immigration for individuals to business immigration.
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If you or your business needs immigration law advice call OTS Solicitors on 0203 959 9123 or contact us online.
Ranked for immigration expertise
The team is celebrating its 2024 ranking in one of the leading law directories for its personal immigration work. Partner and head of the business immigration team, Hans Sok Appadu, is ranked for his business immigration work.
Here is what Chambers says about OTS Solicitors:
‘’OTS Solicitors is a sought-after immigration team with a focus on human rights and personal immigration issues. The firm handles a plethora of sophisticated matters, ranging from citizenship deprivation cases to indefinite leave to remain applications. It represents a range of individuals, including students, spouses and families.
Strengths
"OTS Solicitors are extremely professional, experienced and highly skilled in what they do. They offered a brilliant service."
"It is rare to get professionals who switch from consultant mode to being in the actual shoes of the client. There were instances where the team went beyond the normal conference call setup and took the initiative to reach out. It was very refreshing to see professionals to do that."
Notable practitioners
Oshin Shahiean and Teni Shahiean are key contacts.
Ranked for business immigration
Partner and head of the firm’s business immigration team, Hans Sok Appadu, has been ranked in the 2024 Chambers edition for his business immigration expertise. Hans believes that this is down to the proactive business immigration services offered by the department. Whilst the team advises a range of businesses from small to large and across diverse sectors from complex digital and tech firms to construction n to care homes, the business immigration team are known for their proactive advice and ability to come up with business immigration solutions.
Hans Sok Appadu says:
‘’As a partner in an SME, I understand the sorts of pressures that businesses face when it comes to recruiting and retaining talent, meeting employment and HR good practice as well as complying with sponsor licence duties. At OTS Solicitors we believe that it is important that our business immigration lawyers listen to the needs of your business. That’s why we adapt our bespoke sponsor licence training, the conduct of our sponsor licence audits and sponsor licence management service to the needs of your business.
‘’ You may be an entrepreneur with your first start-up, a third-generation family business with an established HR team or a company with over 200 nursing homes. That’s why your business immigration solicitor needs to find out what help you need and work to fill the gaps so your business only pays for the expertise you need and want.
‘’I think it is our willingness to listen, our flexibility and our commitment to excellent client service that has led to the ranking in Chambers for business immigration. I am delighted to lead the business immigration team that led to my 2024 Chambers recognition.’’
Oshin Shahiean, managing partner at OTS Solicitors says:
‘’It is great to be included in the 2024 edition of the Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession. For those of you who don’t know it’s a guide produced annually with rankings for UK-wide law firms in different legal practice areas. In my view, it is great news for a small but specialist London firm to appear in the UK-wide rankings for personal immigration and for Hans' recognition for leading the established business immigration team.
‘’You may ask what we did to get into the 2024 edition of Chambers. I have to confess that we did nothing different to what we do day in and day out. We talk to people and businesses and come up with immigration solutions to help them.
‘’Legal directory rankings are the last thing on your mind when you are approached by someone desperate to come to the UK on a Spouse Visa to be reunited with their husband or wife or when a son asks you for help to enable him to bring his mother to the UK on an Adult Dependent Relative Visa. All our Immigration solicitors just go into ‘action mode’ totally focussed on the client and their needs.
‘’I was pleased to see that our excellent client service was recognised by Chambers when they reported a comment that it is ‘’rare to get professionals who switch from consultant mode to being in the actual shoes of the client’’. That’s what our Immigration lawyers at OTS Solicitors do as a matter of course. We try and put ourselves in the position of our client, whether you want business immigration law advice on the downgrading of your sponsor licence or need help with sponsor licence management services or assistance with an individual immigration law problem, such as a partner visa, student visa, dependant visa or a settlement application for indefinite leave to remain or British citizenship.
‘’ You would think that treating people as people would be a given in all UK law firms but it isn’t. I think it is a skill that sadly not all lawyers possess. I understand just how important a quick email can be to say ‘No news, but we are working on it’ or our taking the time to explain why the time isn’t right for someone to apply for a partner visa or why it is in your best interests to delay your application for indefinite leave to remain.
‘’ At OTS Solicitors we treat all our clients as if they were a member of our family needing our help. It is a discipline that we instil in all our young solicitors, trainees and paralegals. We don’t just want our lawyers to be great at the law and exceptional negotiators and advocates. We want them to have the human touch – to think that going above and beyond for a client is just part of the job – nothing unusual because it is how we look after every client.
‘’One thing I am guilty of is not telling the team of brilliant lawyers and staff at OTS Solicitors just how much I appreciate all their hard work. Every one of them counts as that first telephone call with a cheery voice is so important to how you feel about instructing an Immigration lawyer at what may be a rough time for you or a tough time in your business. So, this blog is as much a massive thank you to all at OTS Solicitors as it is to express my delight at our inclusion in the 2024 Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession.’’
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If you or your business needs immigration law advice call OTS Solicitors on 0203 959 9123 or contact us online.
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