Anushka Sinha

Practice Areas

Business Immigration:

Sponsor Licences

Sponsor compliance support and training

Global Talent visa

Start-up and Innovator visas

Scale-up visa

International Sportsperson 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)

Religious Worker visas

Temporary Work:

• Creative Worker visa

• Government Authorised Exchange visa

• Charity Worker visa

• International Agreement visa

Graduate visa

As well as servicing legacy visas and working on routes to settlement.

Personal Immigration:

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

EEA nationals and family (including late EUSS applications)

British citizenship and naturalisation

Visitor visas

British National (Overseas) visa

Youth Mobility Scheme

Ancestry

Long Residence

Human Rights

Appeals, Administrative Reviews and Judicial Reviews.

Career

Anushka Sinha is a well-respected, familiar face in UK immigration law, highly-regarded as a safe pair of hands for all immigration and nationality matters.

She is a co-convenor of the Immigration Law Practitioners Association (ILPA) Economic Migration Working Group and established the first international subcommittee of ILPA in New York.

Anushka has been a regular contributor to the Legal 500 UK Fintech Guide. She has written about immigration law and has at points been actively involved in challenging Home Office policies through her work with ILPA. She has met with the Immigration Minister and senior policymakers on several occasions to discuss changes to the UK immigration system and policies.

Anushka Sinha specialises in all areas of business and personal immigration, having worked for UK immigration departments of international repute in the UK and US.

She is ranked as a Future Leader by Who’s Who Legal for Corporate Immigration, described as an “excellent practitioner” with an exceptional track record providing advice to corporations and individuals on all aspects of the points-based system, as well as other visa categories.

According to Chambers UK she “ably guides clients through the points-based immigration system and has notable experience working with US-based clients.” Chambers has also found clients regard Anushka as “very responsive and calm under pressure” and “amazing and goes the extra distance to make sure the client is supported all the way through.”

Anushka has worked with the Department for International Trade, training on UK immigration routes, as well as the British Consulate-General in New York, where she has presented alongside Entry Clearance Managers and policy makers.

Anushka has also presented on immigration matters at elite universities in the UK and US, the Independent Wealth Planners Association, as well as presenting at SXSW music festival in Texas on UK immigration issues pertaining to DigiTech, music and entertainment.

She has worked with many internationally renowned artists and entertainers, particularly in the Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent) category and the Global Talent visa which has replaced it. Anushka delivers training to fellow ILPA practitioners on the Global Talent immigration route from tech talent to the arts.

Anushka has worked with businesses of all sizes from start-ups to multinational household names to identify the most appropriate UK immigration routes. She has also worked on complex personal immigration cases, challenging refusals and discretionary applications outside the Immigration Rules.

Anushka is a fluent French speaker having read Political Sciences at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Lyon and holds a Masters in International and European Law from Toulouse, France. She also speaks Hindi and basic German.

Professional Memberships

Co-convenor of Economic Working Group, Immigration Law Practitioners' Association (ILPA)

Languages Spoken

French

Hindi