Looking for US->UK immigration lawyer - any recommendations?

[TheBlonde]

Anyone know any good immigration lawyers?

My bro's gf wants to come to the UK to work
She doesn't have enough points to qualify for the Highly Skilled Migrant Visa
Any other ideas how she can get in? (apart from marriage)

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Where do you live? I know a very good one in Coventry, but there are loads in London (or at least there used to be before life was made nearly impossible for them by the govt! - constant changes in the law plus serious public funding cuts plus massive increase in bureaucracy...)

We're in London

Try Bindman & Partners. Very well respected but I suspect they don't do legal aid any more. Bindman & Partners

275 Gray's Inn Road
London
WC1X 8QF

Phone: 020 7833 4433

Also :Gulbenkian Andonian

Suite 2.2 2nd Floor
Sicilian House
Sicilian Avenue
London
WC2A 2QH

Phone: 020 7269 9590
Fax: 020 7404 7624

Or: Allen & Overy

One New Change
London
EC4M 9QQ

Phone: 020 7330 3000
Fax: 020 7330 9999

And I seem to remember that these are OK; Bates, Wells & Braithwaite

Scandanavian House
2-6 Cannon st
London
EC4M 8HY

Phone: 020 7551 7881

There are a huge number of practitioners out there who are, to be blunt, crap. It's a really complex area of law - you need to keep up to date on a daily basis almost. But these are all OK - and Bindmans are excellent.

Whoever you get, make sure they're members of ILPA - it isn't a guarantee of competence, but if they're not members, then chances are they're not up to much.

Thanks CorrieDale