Immigration & Asylum Law
Help for people wishing to enter or remain in the UK
If you, a family member or a friend, wish to enter/remain in the UK, it is important that you receive the correct advice to ensure the desired result. Our immigration and asylum law team specialises in advising clients on their status and representing clients before the Immigration & Asylum Tribunal.
Our Immigration and Asylum Law Solicitors can offer specialist advice on:
- Refugees and Asylum Seekers including family reunion applications;
- Entry Clearance/Visa applications at non EEA British Embassies for visitors, husbands, wives, fiancées, other family members, students, working holiday makers and many others;
- Applications for limited or indefinite leave to remain/humanitarian leave to remain;
- Work permit, student visas, training and work experience permit applications;
- Appeals, deportation;
- British Citizenship - naturalization and registration applications.
Switalskis Solicitors holds contracts with the Legal Services Commission to provide immigration and asylum law services.
You may be entitled to free legal advice and assistance, depending on your circumstances. Our team will be able to advise you whether you are eligible for legal aid.
Family Matters
A successful outcome to an asylum application can be wonderful news, but in cases where asylum seekers are forced to leave their families behind, it can also produce feelings of sadness. Our specialists are experienced in dealing with such cases and assist clients who have had successful asylum applications to be reunited with their families in the UK.
We also have expertise and specialist knowledge in the areas where immigration law overlaps with family law. In cases of relationship breakdown, our specialists can advise people living in the UK on spousal visas on immigration status and general family law matters including divorce and child residence and contact. Our team has extensive experience in advising victims of domestic violence who are living in the UK on spousal visas. In such cases, we are able to assist with applications for indefinite leave to remain in the UK, as well as obtaining emergency injunctions.
Specialist advice from accredited experts
Our Immigration and Asylum law team is made up of professionals qualified under the Law Society's Immigration Law accreditation scheme. This means that their knowledge and expertise has been rigorously and independently assessed.
Our team also often works closely with specialists from other departments within the firm. At Switalskis, we have experienced teams working in areas which include: family and child care law, criminal law, mental health law, community care law and public law. This means that within our firm, we have a wide body of expert knowledge to draw upon, ensuring that our clients get the best possible advice and representation.
Speaking your Language
At Switalskis, we understand that effective communication could make all the difference to an immigration or asylum application. Members of our team are speakers of a variety of Asian languages, including Farsi, Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi and Gujarati, and we are able to provide the services of interpreters for all other languages.
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