Samar Shams

Practice Areas

Samar supports organisations to access talent from all over the world. She offers a hassle-free process for sponsoring non-UK nationals to work in the UK.

Samar helps businesses expand to the UK. Strategic advice is a particular strength.

Samar has strong track record of helping companies ensure compliance with sponsorship and right to work requirements.

Specialisms in personal immigration work include UK family-based applications, settlement and citizenship.

Career

Samar is Managing Partner at Changes Immigration.

She has comprehensive knowledge of the Immigration Rules, rooted in over 15 years' UK immigration experience and in having being responsible for immigration knowledge for a City team for many years.

Clients benefit from Samar's obsession with efficiency. She is perpetually improving the firm's systems to best serve clients and update them on the constant changes in immigration requirements.

Samar is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and as an attorney in New York State.

Samar regularly speaks at national and international legal conferences and industry events.

Professional Memberships

Samar is a member of the Immigration Law Practitioners' Association (ILPA), the International Bar Association (IBA) and the General Migration Section of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).

Publications

Samar regularly publishes thought leadership articles. Her articles have appeared in publications including People Management, the Employment Law Journal, the Law Society Gazette, HRZone and Care Home Management Magazine.

Personal

The innovative thinking Samar applies to her work is grounded in a life-long love of art. She paints and sews. She also invented and patented overshoes for women cyclists called BOOJEES.