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UK Visas & Sponsorship for Skilled Staff, Entrepreneurs & the Highly Talented

If you want to set up a UK office, hire from abroad, or just relocate to the UK, we can help

"Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do", - J.P Morgan.      

​​If you, or your staff, need a UK visa, there is almost always a way to get it.  The Investor visa route is closed, but if you have £2m and want to come to the UK, we will find a way to get you here.  Need to bring in household staff?  Sponsorship can work for Nannies, Nurses and Cooks.  Entrepreneurs can be sponsored by their own companies (restrictions apply!).  If you dont yet have a UK company we can help you get boots on the ground in the UK very quickly.

Once you have a sponsor licence, we help you keep it, prepare you for audits, and help during mergers/demergers (it is easier and cheaper to look at licence issues early on in any transaction, than to sign a deal and then scrabble to keep sponsored staff legal after the event)

James Wallace-Dunlop began his career in immigration law in 1987 when he worked for Simmonds & Simmonds Solicitors in the City of London; his  immigration work has been mentioned in Parliament [June 1988], and our policy submissions have been quoted extensively in reports by the Migration Advisory Committee, which advises the UK government on immigration policy.  

 

Writing by James Wallace-Dunlop on subjects other than immigration can be found at  https://jameswallace-dunlop.ghost.io/

To see how we can help you, please do get in touch.  

Policy Work

J Dunlop & Co tries to help the UK economy, and its clients, by engaging with the Migration Advisory Committee (to which the government often turn when considering changes), as well as directly with the Home Office and ministers.  Although our own preference is for a relatively ‘open door’ system, as public opinion is not with us on that front, our submissions mainly focus on making the system work better, minimising distortions, and, if possible, undoing the ‘unintended consequences’ that often arise in complex systems when a change in one area, made with an objective in mind, interacts with a rule in another area, in a way that does not help the original objective.

Our submissions, have been cited on several occasions by the Migration Advisory Committee in their reports.  The submissions, reports and citations are provided below:
 

While there are cases where policies have been changed in the ways we have suggested, or not changed in ways we have argued against, it is entirely possible that this would have happened anyway, even if we had written nothing.  We are not paid lobbyists: if, rather than having a specific immigration case about which you need advice/representation, you would like to change UK immigration policy, please feel free to contact the MAC, or the Immigration Minister, directly.   Of course, during a consultation, for which a client is paying an hourly fee, we are always happy to discuss policy, but please consider such time to be purely an investment in an intellectual exercise: you should not expect any policy change to follow as a result.

We welcome the post-Brexit changes that have generally been in a liberalizing direction.  The loss of the Investor Visa and Sole Representative visa was a pity, but Brexit has made the UK keen to show that it is a Global economy, open to the world's brightest and best.  In 2021 the time taken to sponsor an expat worker fell to under a month, when previously it could take three.  And Global Talent visas, once the preseve of almost Nobel prize / Oscar level stars, are now open to a few of us mere mortals.  If you want to setup in the UK, don't hesitate.

MAC Report

Policy Submissions

WHAT PEOPLE SAY

Aneesh, Tech Entrepreneur

James found me £200k of backing, arranged my Entrepreneur visa, and now I have ILR

Nima, Solicitor

When we had a sponsor licence suspension, I worked with James  and counsel, to restore Home Office confidence in the business, and get the licence reinstated.

Manoj, CEO

J Dunlop & CO has been indispensable in getting our Sponsorship Licence, advising us on updates, and our recent successful renewal.

Aneesh, Tech Entrepreneur

James found me £200k of backing, arranged my Entrepreneur visa, and now I have ILR

Nima, Solicitor

When we had a sponsor licence suspension, I worked with James  and counsel, to restore Home Office confidence in the business, and get the licence reinstated.

Manoj, CEO

J Dunlop & Co has been indispensable in getting our Sponsorship Licence, advising us on updates, and our recent successful renewal.

For Visa advice for employers and business owners, speak to our experts.

CONTACT US

140 Upper Richmond Road West, London SW14 8DS

07879 480 755

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