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Immigration

Navigating immigration rules can be complex – whether employers are seeking to attract global talent or individuals are making significant decisions about their future. Our immigration experts provide clear, pragmatic guidance to help you navigate this fast evolving landscape with confidence.

Overview

Our specialist immigration lawyers support you in staying compliant, minimising risk, and focusing on what matters most, while working towards your wider business or personal goals.

Business immigration services

We understand the commercial challenges of attracting and retaining talent, alongside the pressure of meeting ongoing Home Office responsibilities. Our team can support you with:

  • Visa support: End-to-end assistance for businesses across a range of visa routes, including Skilled Worker, Global Business Mobility routes, Temporary work or visitor routes, and High Potential Individual visas
  • Sponsor license applications: Support with sponsor licence applications, ongoing sponsorship duties, and ensuring compliance reporting remains accurate
  • Sponsor licence maintenance: Including advice on sponsorship duties, management of reporting requirements and support with securing certificate of sponsorships and Home Office requests for information.
  • Preventing illegal working: Advice on managing right-to-work issues, conducting compliant checks, and handling cases of illegal working, including challenging civil penalties where appropriate
  • Bespoke training: Practical virtual or onsite workshops, tailored to your organisation and delivered by experienced specialists
  • Compliance audits: Mock audit services to review your compliance systems and help prepare for potential Home Office visits
  • Policy and contract review: Drafting and reviewing immigration related policies to reflect sponsorship obligations, including advice on immigration fee clawback clauses and worker responsibilities.

Personal immigration services

Individuals often require advice that is timely, accurate, and sensitive to personal circumstances. Our immigration lawyers support clients at every stage of their journey, from initial applications through to long-term settlement. We can advise on:

  • Global Talent and Innovator Founder visas
  • Family‑based applications
  • Indefinite leave to remain
  • Citizenship routes

Featured experience

Sponsor licenses

Advising a company on how a share sale impacted its sponsor licence

Visa support

Providing visa processing support to a major financial company

Right-to-work issues

Supporting a company to challenge the issuing of a civil penalty for illegal working

Cross border working

Advising a construction company on bringing workers to the UK on short term assignments.

FAQs

Yes. Our team advises employers on business immigration requirements and individuals on personal immigration matters. This includes support with visa applications, sponsorship compliance, and longer‑term immigration routes.
Employers can involve us at any stage, whether applying for a sponsor licence, supporting a specific visa application, or reviewing existing processes and compliance arrangements. We also advise organisations that already hold a licence and need ongoing support.
Our immigration lawyers advise individuals on a range of matters, including work‑related visas, family‑based applications, indefinite leave to remain, and citizenship. We support clients from initial applications through to longer‑term settlement.
Yes. We work closely with HR and people teams, providing practical training sessions and tailored advice on managing immigration related responsibilities within the organisation, including sponsorship duties and preventing illegal working.
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    "Joanna is extremely knowledgeable, proactively reaches out with information that may be relevant and responds quickly to queries from the team."

    Chambers and Partners UK 2026, Immigration

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    "Joanna's advice is very holistic to the client. She thinks very commercially and holistically."

    Chambers and Partners UK 2026, Immigration

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    "Joanna provides good, clear advice"

    Chambers and Partners UK 2026, Immigration

Who we are

Why choose DAC Beachcroft?

We’re a broad-based commercial firm serving a wide range of sectors with a strong heritage in insurance,
health and real estate. We combine excellent legal skills and cutting-edge delivery expertise to design
solutions that fit the needs of our clients – often involving clever uses of technology.

More about us

Immigration key contacts

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Joanna Hunt

Partner

London

Joanna Hunt

Partner

London

+44 (0) 20 7894 6285

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