Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law

Managing Partner:Vanessa Ganguin

Senior Counsel:Philip Trott

Senior Associate:Ben Maitland

Senior Associate: Alex Piletska

Senior Client Manager:Ross Kennedy

Associate Solicitor: James Lamont

Associate Solicitor:Eralda Shullazi

Associate Solicitor:Alexandra Miradi

Trainee Solicitor:Jocelyn Cheng

Paralegal: Frances Kennedy

Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law is a friendly and dynamic immigration practice providing outstanding advice and exceptional service to businesses, individuals and families. The team of well-respected specialists led by founder Vanessa Ganguin has an impeccable record of finding fast solutions, challenging decisions and winning complex cases at all levels.

As a boutique firm, the firm's approachable lawyers are referred business and personal clients from all over the world by financial and legal service professionals who value a tailored, personal service for their clients. Client satisfaction is always a priority.

Since the firm was founded by Vanessa Ganguin, who boasts three decades of UK immigration expertise, it has gone from strength to strength, attracting outstanding immigration specialists, such as Philip Trott "a legendary figure in immigration law” according to Spears, with a glittering career of helping clients navigate the UK's immigration system as smoothly as possible, including many celebrity clients and high-profile cases. Ben Maitland is on the editorial board at Lexis for immigration and has a wealth of experience of helping businesses and individuals navigate the UK's ever-changing immigration system.

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-winningUkraine 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.

Sponsor Licences

Sponsor compliance support and training

Scale-up visa

Skilled Worker visa

Health and Care Worker visa

Global Business Mobility visa:

·Senior or specialist worker to meet specific business needs (this replaces Intra-Company Transfers)

·Graduate trainee as part of a training programme (this replaces the Intra-Company Graduate Trainee route)

·Secondment worker to UK firms in high value contracts or investments

·Service supplier to the UK in line with UK trade agreements (this replaces the T5 International Agreement routes)

·UK expansion worker to establish a UK presence (this replaces Representative of an Overseas Business)

Creative Worker visa

Global Talent visa

International Sportsperson visa

Innovator Founder

Minister of Religion and Religious Worker visas

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