Immigration services for US citizens

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Our immigration team has a long history of providing specialist UK immigration advice to US businesses and US citizens.

Alongside our corporate and commercial and employment law colleagues, we regularly assist US based corporate clients with establishing a UK presence and transferring staff to the UK.

Support for UK Businesses

Our UK Expansion team supports US business looking to open their first presence in the UK and to transfer key staff to start the UK operations. We can assist with obtaining a UK Expansion Worker sponsor licence and with transferring the first employees. We provide full end-to-end support to US clients through our dedicated Immigration, Employment, Corporate and Real Estate professionals.

We act for numerous US headquartered firms with existing operations in the UK, helping them transfer staff to their UK offices and to sponsor other non-UK staff to work here and help their business grow.

Support for US Individuals

For private individuals based in the US, including artists, performers, film and TV talent, tech specialists, architects, designers, financial services professionals, entrepreneurs and HNW individuals, we can advise on the most appropriate route to move to the UK. We have deep expertise across all of the main UK immigration routes including Global Talent, High Potential Individual, Innovator Founder and applying as the partner of a British citizen or UK permanent resident.

Our team also supports US nationals who are unable to come to the UK due to historic criminal convictions. We advise artists, entertainers and business people on complex issues around refusals of ETAs and visas and potential legal challenges to mandatory and discretionary refusals based on past criminal issues. We work closely with our leading Public Law team in advising on administrative law challenges.

British Citizenship for US Individuals

We also support US nationals to obtain British Citizenship, whether this is those already in the UK applying after a period of residence, those in the US who are British by birth through a UK-born parent who have never applied for a British passport, those who were unable to apply for British Citizenship because their UK-born mother could not pass on Citizenship at the time or those who may be eligible through having parents or grandparents born in the UK.

Key members of our team are recognised as leaders in their filed and are members of the American Immigration Lawyers' Association (AILA) and the American Bar Association (ABA) (for example, Marcia Longdon is a Human Rights & Immigration committee member with the Employment and Labor Section of the ABA).

Nicolas Rollason is a former Chair of the International Bar Association’s (IBA) Immigration and Nationality Law Committee. He has over 30 years of experience and is recognised as a leading expert on corporate and private client immigration law. Nick is a UK member of the US-based Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers (ABIL), which comprises some of the leading specialist US immigration firms and lawyers. Nick is a frequent speaker in the US for the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)’s Global Migration Section as well as other specialist conferences. He is the Commissioning Editor of the annual Corporate Immigration report published by International Comparative Legal Guides and is a frequent press commentator on UK and global immigration policy issues.