Skilled Worker Visa

If you are a UK business looking to sponsor a skilled worker under the points-based immigration system, or you are a skilled worker visa applicant looking to join a business in the UK, the business immigration lawyers at IMD Solicitors can guide you through the skilled worker visa application process.

Get in touch to see how we can help your business.

Skilled worker visa services for UK employers

If you are a UK employer, then whatever your size or sector, we can help and support you with your overseas recruitments needs by:

applying for and managing your sponsor licence
advising on the skilled worker visa recruitment process, including the genuine vacancy test, skills and minimum salary threshold eligibility criteria skilled worker visa applicants, including new entrants and applicants for vacancies on the shortage occupation list
allocation of standardised occupational classification (SOC) codes and certificates of sponsorship
associated legal advice on employment contracts and compliance with sponsor licence reporting and recording duties and right to work checks

Skilled worker visa services for employees

If you are looking to move to the UK on a skilled worker visa our business immigration solicitors can help with:

your skilled worker visa application and any dependant visa applications
alternatives to the skilled worker visa, such as the graduate visa
switching visa to a new sponsoring employer or into a new visa route
advice on your best route to settlement in the UK

Our business immigration solicitors provide clear immigration law advice for both employers and employees so you can secure your new overseas hire or obtain your skilled worker visa as quickly and as smoothly as possible.

Jarmila Entezari

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Marcin Durlak

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Marcelo Reale

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Evgenia Kabanova

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Alicja Bielawska

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Why come to us?

As a full-service law firm, our business immigration solicitors work with our corporate and employment lawyers on all aspects of global mobility. Our focus is to ensure your company has the comprehensive legal advice to tackle the next expansion, merger, recruitment or staff transfer plans.

Business immigration law can impact your company and its goals, and we understand how complex it can get. But working as an integrated team at IMD, our merger and acquisition solicitors can call upon our business immigration solicitors for expert advice providing you with a comprehensive service.

IMD Solicitors have offices in London, Birmingham and Manchester, and in a number of European cities, with a plethora of trusted partners throughout Europe. We resolve UK and EU based disputes, corporate transactions and commercial law matters that are governed by UK or EU law.

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List of notable commercial cases

Advising one of the largest European banks on a number of occasions in respect of validity and construction of guarantees and on demand bonds, together with validity of agreements varying the guarantees and the underlying multi-million facility agreements.
Advising on the establishment of a large entertainment company. Preparing various corporate and investment documents and leading extensive negotiations of shareholder agreement and ancillary documents. In addition, we provided various legal support to the company on on-going basis.
Acting for a major automotive manufacturer in a joint venture with a UK company to commence production and distribution on the product in the UK and the Commonwealth. Negotiating and preparing all the relevant joint venture documents.
Acting for the construction company in a large scale building project of circa £25m. Involved in negotiating an extensive JCT D&B contract as between our client (main contractor) and the local authority who were their client in this project.
Drafting Terms & Conditions and Warranty terms for a leading UK manufacturer of steel doors, windows and partitions.
Representing a sub-contractor in construction contract negotiations involving a large number of parties for construction of a museum in Kuwait.
Advising on and drafting SaaS (Software as a Service) contract for the Client entering the UK market
Advising on both pro-supplier and pro-customer Software Development Agreements for various Clients
Advised a technology start up to set up and validate a messaging app, a direct competitor to Facebook’s Messenger
Advising the client on and negotiating terms of corporate and personal guarantees tied to a cross-border commercial contract.
Assisting a charity in preparation of various terms and conditions and contractual agreements.
Advising the client on the terms of a joint venture agreement in an innovative waste management project.
Advised the first Polish-owned bridging company in the UK
Advising the client on the validity of execution of a number of international corporate finance agreements.