UK Immigration Legal Advice for American Citizens and Companies
As individual immigration and business Immigration solicitors we advise visa applicants and businesses from around the globe about relocation to the UK, immigration solutions and visa opportunities.
Our Immigration solicitors receive many requests for help from US citizens and companies based in America as well as from US nationals who are now living in the UK and from US businesses with bases in the UK who are in need of further specialist immigration advice.
UK Online and London-Based Immigration Solicitors
For immigration law advice call London-based OTS Solicitors on 0203 959 9123 or contact us online.
Help for US citizens living in the UK
If you are an American citizen living in England the need for UK immigration advice does not end when you first secure UK entry clearance.
Our personal immigration team is ranked in the 2024 edition of Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession and can help you with:
- Applications to extend your Work Permit Visa
- Advice if you have overstayed on a visa and not applied to extend it or switch
- Applications to switch from a Student Visa to a Graduate Visa
- Applications to switch from a Graduate Visa to a Skilled Worker Visa
- Applications to switch from a UK Expansion Worker Visa to a Skilled Worker Visa
- Visa assistance when you are changing sponsored employer
- Immigration options after UK entry on the Senior or Specialist Worker Visa
- Business visa options if you want to set up your own business in the UK. For example, the Innovator Founder Visa
- Specialist visa options, such as the Global Talent Visa
- Dependant Visa applications for family members wanting to join you in the UK
- Advice on UK settlement and the eligibility criteria
- Indefinite Leave to Remain applications
- Returning Resident Visas
- Applying for British citizenship – you can either apply for British citizenship and give up your US citizenship or apply for dual nationality
- Our specialist family law solicitors can advise on any family law aspects associated with your family and its immigration needs. For example, if you are looking to expand your family by using a US surrogate or by adopting a child in the States. The family will need UK family law advice and the child will need a visa to enter the UK
Immigration services for US companies with a base in the UK
A key US employee may have set up a UK branch or a UK subsidiary company of a US parent company via the old-style sole representative visa or the current UK Expansion Worker Visa but that is just the start of your UK business immigration law needs.
Hans Sok Appadu heads our business immigration team and he is recommended in the 2024 edition of Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession. He and the team of specialist Sponsorship Licence lawyers can assist your business with:
- Applying to extend your sponsor licence from sponsorship of UK Expansion Worker Visa holders to enable you to grow the business by sponsoring Skilled Worker Visa applicants or Senior or Specialist Worker Visa applicants
- Sponsor licence management services on a fixed monthly retainer
- Sponsor licence training
- Sponsor licence problem shooting if key personnel have not been able to keep up with reporting and recording duties
- Sponsor licence renewal applications
- Assistance if your sponsor licence is at risk of downgrading or suspension
- Visa options and immigration advice if you want to transfer graduate trainees or workers from the US to the UK branch
- Business visas if US-based employees need to temporarily carry out work in the UK and the work is classed as permitted business activities under the UK immigration rules
- Employment law advice for employers on UK employment law
We have expertise and experience in advising companies in the financial, legal, tech and digital sectors. Whether you are a start-up entrepreneur, SME, or multi-national, our dedicated Sponsorship Licence lawyers can assist with proactive solutions-driven business immigration legal advice.
As Immigration solicitors, we see an individual’s arrival in the UK or a US company’s decision to set up in the UK as the start of our legal partnership with you. If your US business has established US attorneys and business advisors, we can work with them so you receive the comprehensive UK and US immigration and employment law advice required.
UK Online and London-Based Immigration Solicitors
For immigration law advice call London-based OTS Solicitors on 0203 959 9123 or contact us online.
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