Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law

Managing Partner: Vanessa Ganguin

Senior Counsel: Philip Trott

Senior Associate: Ben Maitland

Senior Client Manager: Ross Kennedy

Associate Solicitor: Eralda Shullazi

Associate Solicitor: Alexandra Miradi

Trainee Solicitor: Jocelyn Cheng

Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law is a friendly boutique immigration practice renowned for outstanding advice and exceptional service to individuals, families and businesses. The team of well-respected specialists led by founder Vanessa Ganguin has an impeccable record of finding swift solutions even in tricky situations. Vanessa's commercial nous mean many private client service providers turn to her as a safe pair of hands for clients looking to visit, perform, work or settle in Britain.

Since the firm was founded by Vanessa Ganguin, who boasts three decades of UK immigration expertise, it has attracted savvy immigration specialists, such as 'Senior Statesperson' Philip Trott who has been described in Chambers High Net Worth as "the godfather of immigration law” and was recently awarded an "Outstanding Contribution" Awards at the Chambers High Net Worth Awards 2025. Ben Maitland also brings a wealth of experience of helping investors, entrepreneurs, celebrities and HNW individuals navigate the UK's immigration system as smoothly as possible.

Alex Piletska has joined having led a highly-regarded private immigration team and assisted clients with all stages of their and their family's immigration and settlement, including Leave Outside the Immigration Rules, complex nationality cases, vanishingly difficult Adult Dependent Relative applications, Judicial Reviews and technical procedural issues like validity and variations. She is a co-founder of the award-winning Ukraine Advice Project UK, which signed up more than 600 lawyers and has helped more than 4000 families escaping the conflict.

Vanessa and her colleagues are known for their trouble-free, hand-holding approach to all UK immigration and nationality matters, with the range of expertise to offer strategic solutions for organisations of all sizes as well as individuals across all the UK's immigration pathways.

The firm’s senior immigration specialists regularly comment on UK immigration developments in the media, write articles and briefings on immigration matters and are highly-regarded in the major legal directories.

Many referrals are from US law firms with clients seeking a friendly expert, hand-holding service for the swiftest immigration routes available, or leading professionals applying for the Global Talent visa.

The firm’s senior immigration specialists regularly comment on UK immigration developments in the media, write articles and briefings on UK immigration matters and are highly-regarded in all the top legal directories.

Global Talent visa

International Sportsperson visa

Innovator Founder

Sponsor Licences

Sponsor compliance support and training

Scale-up visa

Skilled Worker visa

Global Business Mobility visa

Creative Worker visa

Visit visas

Family visas (partners, spouses, children, adult dependants)

EEA nationals and family (late EUSS applications are more complicated than ever now)

British citizenship and naturalisation

British National (Overseas) visa

Ancestry

Appeals, Administrative Reviews and Judicial Reviews.

Long Residence

British Citizenship

Human Rights claims

Routes to settlement for those on legacy visas such as Entrepreneur, Start Up or Investor

High Potential Individual visa

Graduate visa

Student visa