Immigration law
Understanding immigration law
At Russell-Cooke we understand that immigration law is personal, even for businesses, and we reflect this in both our advice and approach.
Our highly ranked London-based immigration solicitors has been trusted by businesses across a wide range of industries to help them achieve their immigration-related objectives in the UK. Our leading immigration lawyers also have a long and successful track record of advising individuals on their personal immigration matters, ensuring they receive tailored guidance that suits their specific needs.
We specialise in advising individuals across a broad spectrum of UK immigration matters, including applications for indefinite leave to remain, UK citizenship, family and dependant visas, and entrepreneur visas. We also assist individuals facing challenges with the UK immigration authorities, providing expert support in resolving issues effectively.
Highly regarded by businesses across various industries for their proficiency in UK immigration matters.
How our immigration lawyers can help you
Key services offered
Immigration for individuals
Our immigration lawyers provide our individual clients with a very broad scope of immigration advice, including the following:
- British citizenship and indefinite leave to remain/settlement applications
- Skilled Worker employment related visas
- Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker employment related visas
- Global Talent, Innovator Founder, Scale-up Worker, UK Expansion Worker, High Potential Individual (HPI), India Young Professionals Scheme and Graduate visas
- post-deadline discretionary applications for settled or pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme and in time settled status applications
- family and dependant related visa applications for children, spouses, civil partners, fiancés and unmarried partners
- International Sportsperson visas
- UK ancestry visas
- all types of immigration appeals and immigration litigation in the High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and Immigration and Asylum Tribunal
- human rights and discretion based applications
- standard visitor visas
- fast tracking applications
- International adoption and surrogacy cases
Business immigration
We are one of the highest ranked immigration teams in London and can help with all areas of business immigration law in the UK.
The quality of our advice and experience is such that we are often trusted to support clients of other leading professional services firms in the UK and overseas with their immigration needs.
Areas our immigration solicitors specialise in advising businesses on include:
- skilled Worker and Senior or Specialist Worker (Global Mobility) sponsored visa applications
- all aspects of the sponsorship regime, including applying for a sponsor licence and ongoing compliance with the sponsor regime
- Scale-up Worker, Global Talent and Innovator Founder visas
On the advisory side we also assist businesses with drafting compliance manuals and ongoing compliance with UK immigration laws and sponsorship duties as well as providing training. Our immigration lawyers are also experienced in handling contentious business immigration matters, including challenging unlawful Home Office decisions, e.g. by judicial review or appeal.
Our immigration solicitors also often employ their niche expertise by taking on particularly complicated cases, ranging from corporate transactions, administrations, judicial review, distressed sponsor licences and reorganisations affecting sponsor licence holding companies/sponsored workers.

UK immigration law advice for businesses
Our business immigration team has been consistently ranked as one of the best in London and the UK...

Sponsor licence advice
Our business immigration solicitors specialise in advising licensed sponsors and prospective sponsors...

UK immigration law advice for individuals
Our immigration lawyers in London specialise in advising individuals across a very broad range of UK immigration matters...

UK immigration law advice for families and dependants
Our immigration lawyers have a long and successful track record of advising on family and dependant visa applications...
Why choose Russell-Cooke for immigration law
About our immigration solicitors
Independently rated as one of the best immigration teams over many successive years.
We have for many years in a row been independently legal directory rated as one of the leading immigration law teams in London and the UK.
Specialist expertise
Our immigration solicitors have achieved excellent outcomes for our individual clients in numerous cases involving exceptional/discretionary applications outside of the Immigration Rules when it might have seemed there were little or no prospects of success.
High success rate
A very large proportion of visa applications submitted by our immigration solicitors have been approved, despite many of them being discretionary in nature and requiring creative arguments to succeed.
Flexible
Our immigration solicitors advise a very wide range of private clients.
Expedition and insight
Our insightful approach means that our immigration solicitors are adept at “speeding up” Home Office processing times for our clients.
Accessible fees
We keep our fees at a level that we believe are accessible for a very wide range of individual clients. Find out more about our pricing for immigration services.
Contentious immigration matters
One of our legal directory noted specialisms is challenging negative UKVI/Home Office decisions.
Trust
With its long established history, the firm's advice has been trusted for many decades by a wide range of individual and private clients.
Get in touch
If you would like to speak with a member of the team you can contact our immigration law solicitors by email, by telephone on +44 (0)20 3826 7668 or complete our enquiry form.
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