Corporate Immigration Senior Associate

Opportunity to join a great team within a fast growing and highly successful diverse professional practice with a big demand from international clients for immigration advice and support.

A good fun family business which believes in high level of professional care. Believes in taking their job seriously, not themselves, you will be given the opportunity to develop your skills set as well as progress your career.

This is an opportunity to lead and manage a busy immigration team as well as expanding in more complex areas of UK immigration law.

Responsibilities:

• You will be expected to:
  • • manage and develop the Immigration department including the development and growth of the department service offering and mentoring and leading of more junior lawyers.
    • manage your own workload which will include providing accurate and practical advice to clients on all aspects of the UK immigration and nationality law with particular emphasis on advising private and corporate clients on the operation of the Points Based System and UK visas as a whole.
• Assisting with the preparing of applications both within and outside the Points Based System including drafting Sponsor Licence applications, Certificates of Sponsorship, Entry Clearance applications and Further Leave to Remain applications.
• Preparing bespoke submission instructions to assist clients filing applications overseas or in the UK.
• Liaising with UKVI and other government bodies while keeping clients informed of the progress of their application.
• Keeping up to date on changes to UKVI policies and procedures and cascading knowledge as appropriate.
• Have a breadth of knowledge and experience in complex immigration matters and can take on complex casework.
• Manage clients effectively and maintain relations.
• File management and billing administration.
• Lead and develop the immigration team’s knowledge and skills.
• Head immigration specific project work as well as advising on multiple services provided by the firm during marketing event/ roundtables with new and potential clients.