Ellisons Solicitors incorporating Gross & Co provides an all-encompassing service for immigration law to a client base of businesses with UK operations looking to employ skilled foreign nationals, as well as foreign businesses and entrepreneurs seeking to establish UK sites. The team also acts for private individuals and families wanting to live in the UK. Home Office Sponsor Licences and Home Office compliance advice are also notable strengths. Practice head Sohan Sidhu draws on three decades of experience specialising in immigration law and is a renowned expert across all aspects of business immigration. Meenal Goyal is the additional key name to note, assisting individuals, families and business clients, and is fluent in Hindi and Punjabi, and conversational in Urdu, bolstering the firm’s offering to a diverse client base.

Mills & Reeve LLP fields a full-service, national immigration practice equipped to cover business immigration, student immigration and personal immigration matters. The firm’s Norwich office is a key location for its nationwide practice group, and Norwich-based Alex Russell is the head of the national business immigration practice. He routinely advises clients across a range of sectors, including higher education, wherein he is widely seen as a leading practitioner. Additional areas of strength for Russell and the team are in healthcare, life sciences, technology, charities and not-for-profit, and private wealth. Veteran employment lawyer Tracy Yates remains a valued consultant to the firm, while more junior lawyers at the firm’s Birmingham office frequently support Russell on matters in East Anglia and further afield.

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP has a nationwide global mobility and immigration practice that is counsel of choice for a host of major UK businesses. The firm’s Cambridge office houses associate Jiyin Oh, who specialises in UK business immigration and nationality law; and Sasha Lormant, a principal associate with strong knowledge of the transport, life sciences and retail sectors.

The education and charity sectors are the core sources of work for Stone King LLP‘s immigration team in Cambridge, whose strong regional presence sees them act for a host of schools and other education institutions, and a diverse list of local charities. Matters involving faith-based organisations seeking to sponsor religious workers to come to the UK are a standout niche area of expertise for the practice. Julie Moktadir is the lead contact, assisting with all matters, from the points-based system to sponsor licences and workforce shortages. Julianna Barker is the additional name to note in Cambridge.