Business Immigration

Our team is here to help you understand and manage the complex nuances of immigration law.

Post-Brexit, many more employers will need to apply for a sponsor licence as this is now required in order to employ any skilled worker from outside the UK, including EU nationals. We can guide you through the sponsor licence application process and advise you on your sponsor duties.

If you are already a sponsor, we will work closely with your business, tailoring our support to the specific needs of your company. We can provide proactive full end-to-end support (including advice on the recruitment process, management of visa applications and sponsor compliance audits to ensure you are fully compliant with your sponsor duties) or ad-hoc advice on specific queries as and when needed.

Key business immigration services

Below is a list of the business immigration services we provide:

• Advice on the post-Brexit points based immigration system for employing skilled workers from overseas, including EU nationals.
• Applying for and obtaining a sponsor licence, including advice on sponsor duties such as record keeping and reporting duties.
• Applying for and assigning Certificates of Sponsorship.
• Management of and advice on Skilled Worker and Temporary Worker visa applications.
• Management of and advice on Global Business Mobility visas including the Senior or Specialist Worker visa for intra-group transfers from overseas.
• Advice on the new Scale Up visa and High Potential Individual visa.
• Compliance audits for sponsors to ensure you have all the required HR systems and up-to-date processes in place.
• Advice on ‘right to work’ checks and compliance issues.
• Regular updates and seminars on business immigration issues to keep you up to date with all relevant Home Office guidance and legislation.

Examples of business immigration work

• Advising businesses on the process of obtaining a sponsor licence and Certificates of Sponsorship, including detailed advice on sponsor duties and compliance issues, enabling them to sponsor skilled overseas migrants.
• Advising businesses on the process of amending or applying for a new sponsor licence following a change in ownership and the impact on existing sponsored employees.
• Guiding a business through the process of successfully employing a skilled overseas migrant under Tier 2 (General), enabling it to set up a new UK office and transfer staff from China. This included identifying the relevant SOC code for the role and advising on the requirements of the recruitment process.
• Advising on the requirements of a Tier 2 (Intra-Company Transfer) sponsor licence and visa application.
• Advising companies on the transition to the new post-Brexit points based immigration system for employing skilled overseas migrants.
• Advising businesses on Tier 5 (Temporary Worker) categories including charity workers, religious workers and youth mobility scheme workers.
• Advising businesses on right to work checks and potential illegal working issues, including identifying falsified documents and advising on the appropriate reporting of suspected illegal working issues to the Home Office.
• Providing training to businesses on immigration issues such as employing skilled workers under the new points based immigration system, right to work checks and the requirements of the EU Settlement Scheme for EU nationals.

How we work with you

Whilst based in the South of England, Paris Smith acts for businesses and families throughout the UK. Technology has enabled us to provide a high level of service to our clients whether they are local to our offices or not. Our advice can be given in many ways:

• Over the telephone
• Via video conferencing
• In face to face meetings

We will talk through how you would like to be contacted and the best ways for us to meet in our early conversations with you.

Meet the team

Our Immigration team is made up of 3 associates.  You can find contact details for them below.