Alexander Finch

Practice Areas

Alexander practises across UK immigration matters, assisting private individuals as well as businesses.

He has a particular interest in complex British nationality claims, discretionary applications and family-based migration, including international adoption and surrogacy. Alexander has extensive experience in working with private clients, including investors, entrepreneurs and private family offices.

Business Immigration:

Alexander advises on all aspects of sponsor licences, compliance and training for employers.

He helps with work visas such as the Skilled Worker visa, Global Talent visa, Innovator Founder visa, Scale-up visa, International Sportsperson visa, Health and Care Worker visa, Religious Worker visa and Graduate visa.

He can advise on Global Business Mobility visa routes such as the Senior or specialist worker to meet specific business needs (this replaced Intra-Company Transfers); Graduate trainee as part of a training programme (this replaced the Intra-Company Graduate Trainee route); Secondment worker to UK firms in high value contracts or investments; Service suppliers to the UK in line with UK trade agreements (this replaced the T5 International Agreement routes); UK expansion worker to establish a UK presence (this replaced Representative of an Overseas Business).

He has also advised on temporary work visas such as the Creative Worker visa, Government Authorised Exchange visa, Charity Worker visa and International Agreement visa, as well as servicing legacy visas (such as those already on the Start-up or Investor visa) and working on routes to settlement.

Personal Immigration:

Alexander advises on all aspects of family visas (partners, spouses, children, adult dependants); EEA nationals and family (including late EUSS applications); British citizenship and naturalisation; visitor visas; British National (Overseas) visas; Ancestry; Long Residence and Human Rights. He has worked on immigration appeals at all levels.

Career

Alexander qualified as a solicitor in 2010, working on private immigration, asylum and human rights cases, country guidance cases as well as participating in litigation in higher courts.

In 2013 Alexander co-founded a legal practice specialising in complex nationality cases before leaving to manage the private client team in one of the world’s biggest immigration law firms, advising on corporate immigration options and working with Tech Nation advising on Global Talent visas.

Alexander Finch holds a Master of Arts degree in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge.

Professional Memberships

Immigration Law Practitioners Association

Partners Immigration

Publications

Alexander writes extensively on specialist immigration matters, including articles on immigration options for entrepreneurs and investors and intricacies of nationality and citizenship for publications such as the Financial Times, Free Movement and LexisNexis. Together with Gráinne Mellon of Garden Court Chambers, Alexander authored a chapter on Immigration Issues for International Family Law Practice Sixth edition, edited by Professor Hodson OBE (LexisNexis, 2021), and an analysis of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 for LexisNexis.

Alexander has also written an expert briefing published by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Migration on understanding the immigration predicaments faced by families caught up in the Windrush Scandal.

Work Highlights

Passionate about immigration law reform, Alexander has worked with members of Parliament in drafting amendments to legislation. He worked as a legal adviser to the successful campaign for British nationality for the Chagossian community, which resulted in an amendment to the British Nationality Act 1981, allowing adult Chagos Islanders to register for UK citizenship, as well as successful amendments to redress the effects of CSI requirements on European nationals accessing British citizenship.