Business immigration

Ensuring immigration compliance and strategic workforce support

Effective immigration compliance is critical for businesses employing overseas nationals. We help you understand your legal responsibilities, maintain your sponsorship licence, and meet the rigorous requirements of the UK’s Points-Based Immigration System.

We equip your HR and management teams to manage immigration processes confidently and avoid costly pitfalls. Our strategic consultancy supports workforce planning and risk management, ensuring your business can adapt smoothly to regulatory changes and operational needs, especially during corporate transactions such as mergers or joint ventures.

Businesses

The greatest asset for any organisation is its people. The key focus for our business immigration team is to provide advice to UK businesses on recruiting employees who need immigration permission to work in the UK, ensuring compliance with the immigration rules and best practice.

The advice we offer is of high quality and delivered via the knowledge and experience our team of specialist experts. Our service is partner-led and we pride ourselves on our creativity in solving more complex immigration issues whilst working with forward-thinking organisations.

Our advice includes:

• Skilled Worker and GBM sponsor licence applications
• Skilled Worker, GBM or Senior Specialist transfer cases
• Business visitor rules
• Right to Work checks and data retention
• Legacy applications under the EU Settlement Scheme
• The implementation and maintaining of compliant HR systems for firms seeking to apply for a sponsor licence
• Supporting clients before and during Home Office inspections / audits and representing them where allegations of compliance breaches are made

Investors, entrepreneurs and those joining established businesses and start-ups

For investors and high net worth individuals, we work with you to understand your requirements and can advise on all aspects of securing and retaining the appropriate visa for your circumstances, whether you are looking to invest in a qualifying company, set up your own business in the UK, or enter employment with stand-alone status.

Our advice includes:

• Standalone Entrepreneur / Business Investor status
• Global Talent applications, including Endorsing bodies
• High Potential Individuals
• British citizenship and indefinite leave to remain/settlement
• Family and dependant related visa applications for children, spouses, civil partners, fiancés and unmarried partners

We are primarily a Business Immigration practice, although we also act for business clients who wish to make an application under immigration rules for leave to remain, citizenship as well as applications under the EU Settlement Scheme.

Education establishments

We advise students, further and higher educational establishments, independent schools and English language schools on all aspects of related immigration including:

• Student visas
• Ensuring compliance with sponsor and applicant requirements
• Negotiating with the Home Office on behalf of sponsors

Pricing transparency

Quality assured: Wright Hassall is Lexcel accredited, the Law Society’s legal practice quality mark for practice management and client care.

For further details on our the indicative fee scale charged by our immigration team for their services as described, please visit our price transparency page below.

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