McKENZIE
UK IMMIGRATION SOLICITORS IN CENTRAL LONDON
Tel: 07901 558 466
Email: kmckenzie@kmckenzie.co.uk
PRACTICE AREAS
Private Individuals, Families, Business & Corporate, Entrepreneurs & Investors, Science & Technology, Artistic & Cultural
UK IMMIGRATION
A comprehensive service providing advice for, and preparing on your behalf applications for, all immigration categories, including but not limited to:
Partner/family-related, or human rights-related, or ties to the UK-related, applications
Spouse/partner - entry clearance visa/switching/extension of leave to remain/indefinite leave to remain (settlement)
Long residence - private life - initial/extensions
Long residence - indefinite leave to remain (settlement)
Family member under Appendix FM - entry clearance visa/further leave to remain/indefinite leave to remain (settlement)
Applications based on Home Office discretion (non-straightforward or complex) "within the rules"/"outside the rules"/article 8 ECHR
Hong Kong British National (Overseas) for 30 months - entry clearance visa/further leave to remain/indefinite leave to remain (settlement)
Hong Kong British National (Overseas) for 5 years - entry clearance visa/further leave to remain/indefinite leave to remain (settlement)
Ancestry - entry clearance visa/switching/indefinite leave to remain (settlement)
Work/business/skills/finance-related applications
- including science, engineering, medicine and humanities, digital technology and arts and culture
Sponsor Licences
SOC code assessments
Skilled Worker - entry clearance visa/further leave to remain/indefinite leave to remain (settlement)
Global Business Mobility - entry clearance visa/further leave to remain
Global Talent - approval letter from a competent body in respect of an initial application for Global Talent
Global Talent - entry clearance visa/further leave to remain/indefinite leave to remain (settlement)
Innovator - entry clearance visa/further leave to remain/indefinite leave to remain (settlement)
Start-up - entry clearance visa/further leave to remain/indefinite leave to remain (settlement)
Investor - further leave to remain/indefinite leave to remain (settlement)/applications by family members to join main applicant
International sportsperson - entry clearance visa/further leave to remain/indefinite leave to remain (settlement)
Representative of an overseas business - entry clearance visa/further leave to remain/indefinite leave to remain (settlement)
Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) further leave to remain/indefinite leave to remain (settlement)
T2 Minister of Religion - entry clearance visa/further leave to remain/indefinite leave to remain (settlement)
Temporary Worker - entry clearance visa/further leave to remain
Student applications
Student - entry clearance visa/further leave to remain
Child Student - entry clearance visa/further leave to remain
Post-student applications
Graduate visa - switching
High Potential Individual visa
Visitor applications
Visitor - entry clearance visa/extension
EU-related applications
EU Settlement Scheme - pre-settled status/settled status - late applications
Turkish applications
Turkish worker/businessperson - extensions/indefinite leave to remain (settlement)
Turkish worker/businessperson - dependant
Ukraine applications
Ukraine Family Scheme - entry clearance visa/extension
Homes for Ukraine Scheme - entry clearance visa/extension
Ukraine Extension Scheme - visa or leave to remain extensions
Biometric cards
NTL applications
BRP replacement applications
BRP visas
Returning residents
Visa - entry clearance
Compliance by employers, the employed and self-employed in relation to right to work
Subject access requests
Data information held on you by the Home Office
Permission to work applications
Bail applications and release from detention
Requests for changes to bail conditions
Albert Einstein at a session of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (League of Nations), a body created to promote international exchange between scientists, researchers, teachers, artists, and intellectuals
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(Above) The Norwegian explorer and Nobel Prize-winner, Fridtjof Nansen, (Below) One of his "Nansen passports", which allowed stateless persons to legally cross borders
Cover of new British Citizen passport
UK NATIONALITY & CITIZENSHIP
Advice with regard to entitlement to British nationality
By descent
Otherwise than by descent
By naturalisation
By registration
On impending law reform which may benefit you
(Full) British Citizenship
British Overseas Territories Citizenship
British Overseas Citizenship
British Subject status
British Nationality (Overseas)
British Protected Person status
Citizenship & other related applications
Naturalisation as a British Citizen
Registration as a British Citizen
Letter of confirmation of British nationality status
Applications for review of decisions
Applications to stay in the UK as a stateless person
Advice on British passport eligibility
First British passport applications
All Categories of UK Citizenship and Nationality
ASYLUM & HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION
Children preparing for evacuation from Spain, during the Spanish Civil War, some giving the Republican salute. It is dedicated to all innocent victims of war (1936–39, unknown photographer)
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All categories - for example, whether based on persecution on political grounds, on the grounds of sexual orientation, or on the grounds of membership of a particular ethnic or social group, including circumstances where in your home country police protection from persecution is unavailable; refugees "sur place"
We have particular experience of successfully dealing with complex asylum and humanitarian protection claims from Asia and Africa
Recent examples have included:
Afghanistan (political persecution; blood feud;
healthcare provision)
Bangladesh (LGBT)
China (one-child policy)
Malaysia (LGBT; ethnic origin; statelessness)
Russia (political dissidents; conscription;
military deserters)
Tunisia (religious persecution; absence of police
protection)
Permission to work applications
Bail applications
Requests for changes to bail conditions
‘"The Kabuliwala" is a fictional short story by one of India's most beloved writers, Rabindranath Tagore. He wrote it in the 19th century and based his main character, an Afghan migrant, on Kabuliwalas he saw in his own Calcutta lane. The story helped combat prejudice against migrants and refugees in Tagore's day, according to historians and scholars. And it's ever more relevant now, they say, with Afghan refugees once again in the news, Islamophobia rising in India and much of the world, and discrimination against immigrants everywhere.’
Tagore performing the title role in Valmiki Pratibha (1881) with his niece Indira Devi as the goddess Lakshmi.
APPEALS
At all levels from the First-tier Tribunal to the Court of Appeal
Courtroom of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg
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All forms of immigration appeals & challenges:
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Appeals against refusal of leave to remain
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Appeals against refusal of visas (entry clearance)
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Representations to the entry clearance manager
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Appeals against removal
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Appeals against deportation
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Bail applications
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Judicial and other reviews
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Advice regarding the involvement of, and submission of supporting representations by, your constituency MP to the Immigration Minister or entry clearance manager
Kevin and his team here are happy to discuss with you becoming your representatives at whatever stage your immigration process has reached
If you are unhappy with your existing representatives, why not contact us for an initial consultation and second opinion?
If your case requires complex legal submissions or an oral hearing, McKenzie can engage a specialist immigration barrister, possessing the necessary advocacy skills and fully trained in the law of evidence, to represent you before a judge. It is the firm’s strict policy always to use wherever possible a senior qualified barrister with an excellent track record of success, whom we have worked with before, trust, and know well, to represent our clients at hearings