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Kim covers all areas of business immigration. He leads a team advising a wide range of clients, from entrepreneurs and start-ups to multinational corporations.
He and his team handle every type of visa and sponsor licensing issue. Clients include companies in the finance, media, legal, hospitality and technology sectors.
Kim often helps foreign companies and individuals to expand their business to the UK, in many cases working with colleagues in Kingsley Napley’s Corporate, Commercial & Finance and Employment departments.
As well as advising on business immigration matters Kim helps individuals with applications for family visas, the EU Settlement Scheme and British citizenship.
Kim has a strong interest in immigration policy. He enjoys helping clients to anticipate and understand constantly changing rules and processes, and he works with colleagues and other immigration lawyers to try to improve the immigration system.
Kim is ranked in Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal.
what clients and directories say
Kim Vowden is knowledgeable, prompt and effective."
Chambers and Partners 2024
He has consistently provided an impeccable level of service and explains matters succinctly."
Chambers and Partners 2024
Recent work
- Helping a talent agent to establish a UK company and then assisting the company with a sponsor licence application followed by a Skilled Worker visa application for the owner
- Arranging for the senior executive of a well-known media corporation to be issued a second British passport within an extremely tight timeframe
- Securing pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme for a vulnerable individual with a previous refusal and poor evidence of residence
- Making a successful application for indefinite leave to remain at short notice and extremely quickly for a hedge fund manager whose case was complex and who had lost confidence in his previous advisers
- Successfully extending a Sole Representative visa in challenging circumstances following a request from the Home Office for extensive additional evidence
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND MEMBERSHIPS AND AWARDS
- Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association
- European Immigration Lawyers Network
- American Immigration Lawyers Association: Global Migration Section
media
- UK doctors call for simplification of visa rules to stem GP shortage. Financial Times, 12 January 2023
- Can't get the staff: the rules for hiring from overseas after Brexit. The Caterer, 18 December 2020
- Home Office tells Northern Irish woman to prove right to live in Belfast. The Guardian, 31 October 2018
- Free movement is our right. Don’t give it up. Economia, 12 October 2017 and on the Kingsley Napley website
- Refugee Week: The real refugee crisis and what we can do about it. Migrants’ Rights Network, 15 June 2017 and on the Kingsley Napley website
- Brexit – Que faire si vous voulez rester au Royaume-Uni. Ici Londres, February 2017
Further information
Kim has a BA in Classics from Oxford University and a PhD in Sociology from IOE (now part of University College London). In the past he has worked as a teacher of English as a foreign language, primary school teacher and social policy researcher. He joined Kingsley Napley in 2015 and became a partner in 2022.
Kim Vowden... is experienced in advising financial, media and technology clients on business immigration."
Legal 500 UK 2020
... key member of the team."
Legal 500 UK 2017
