This section provides details of how we can support you in making further reprsentations to the Home Office. Our Immigration Lawyers are equipped with the skills and knowledge to tackle your case and provide the correct solution to your problems.

Our Immigration Advisors have detailed knowledge of immigration and nationality law, including:

• grounds for applications
• UKBA practice in the consideration of cases
• UKBA concessionary policies
• grounds for lodging appeals including human rights grounds
• procedures for human rights applications, e.g. One-Stop Notices

 

Once an application has been submiited and you require legal support in terms of administrative reviews or appeals, we are able to lodge the appeal ensuring that there is gorunds of appeal. We have a working knowledge of relevant case law and precedents and how to access and use them effectively when making representations on the client's behalf.

We have detailed knowledge of the types of evidence needed to support appeals and applications outside the Immigration Rules and how to obtain them, and also the relative weight to be attached to different types of evidence.

Importantly our knowledge of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) and other relevant law allow us to construct a case to the Home Office where we feel there is an argument in the point of law and use relevant case laws to support our arguments.

We have a clear understanding and knowledge of immigration, asylum and nationality law and procedure to ensure that we submit a successful case to the Home Office.

A list of the services we provide:

We can also submit One-Stop Notices and lodge appeals on initial grounds. We will carefully examine your refual and provide advice on whether there are merits on your appeal case.

We are also able to do the following:

• applications to the UKBA, including asylum and human rights applications and concessionary or discretionary applications
• Case Resolution/Legacy Cases and Active Review
• applications for Humanitarian Protection
• representing clients in correspondence with the UKBA and at UKBA interviews
• representations to the UKBA in support of cases
• drafting client statements, including asylum statements
• submitting One-Stop Notices
• lodging appeals (only in exceptional circumstances where immediate referral is not possible)
• family reunion applications
• representations regarding ongoing immigration or asylum casework to MPs
• instructing a barrister or advocate for advice and to draft appropriate grounds of appeal (where permitted by the Bar Council)