Roberta Haslam

Practice Areas

Roberta specialises in immigration, asylum and nationality law. She has extensive experience of complex cases, having worked in this field since 2007, qualifying in 2010.

Roberta has considerable in-depth experience with complex family-based applications and applications made on human rights grounds. Her broad practice includes advising partners, dependent relatives, and other family members on all types of applications, applications on long residence and British citizenship. She also advises on passport issues.

Roberta has a particular interest in advising on asylum claims and applications made on physical or mental health grounds. She also acts on deportation cases, including applications to revoke deportation orders and on appeal.

Roberta is experienced in representing clients at the application stage and at appeal in the First Tier and Upper Tribunal and in the higher courts, including the Court of Appeal. She also regularly represents clients in judicial review proceedings. Roberta has also obtained significant damages on behalf of people unlawfully detained by the Home Office.

She provides expert reports on immigration matters for the family court and is regularly instructed by local authorities in relation to children in their care, advising on a range of issues including immigration and citizenship, along with trafficking issues.

Professional Memberships

Law Society IAAS Accredited Supervisor and Senior Caseworker; Immigration Law Practitioners' Association.