Specialist Immigration Employment Law Support
Specialist business immigration and visa services to streamline your processes and ensure full compliance.
Specialist Immigration Employment Law Support
Specialist advice is crucial for managing the complexities of immigration law. At ESP Solicitors, we provide a wide range of services to simplify the immigration process, enabling you to focus on driving meaningful change in your organisation.
Our immigration experts support you with managing visa applications, sponsorship licences, right-to-work checks, and compliance requirements, ensuring you spend less time on legal processes and more on your strategic priorities.
Our Immigration Services
Sponsor licence assistance
A sponsorship licence is essential for employers wishing to recruit overseas workers. We offer a comprehensive application service, which includes:
- Selecting the most appropriate license
- Completing the online application form
- Advising on the evidence required for the application
- Drafting the supporting letter
- Advising on audit questions to ensure you are up to date and in the best position to obtain a license
- Advising on how to request and assign a Certificate of Sponsorship
- Ad hoc questions throughout the process, including those from the individual and their visa application
- Advising on reporting and record-keeping duties
Helping you navigate sponsorship with a fixed subscription plan
If your workplace is looking to sponsor overseas workers, our new comprehensive retained service could be the solution. This inclusive package offers:
- Sponsor compliance audit
- Training you and your team on the sponsored work routes and right to work obligations
- Support with creating and assigning certificates of sponsorship – including skilled workers, global mobility visas, and ministers of religion
- Support with navigating the Sponsor Management System and sponsor duties
- Advice on any situations which may arise through the year.
Alternatively, opt for individual one-off services tailored to suit your specific needs.
Business visitors from abroad
Working in a globally connected world means that colleagues or other business partners may need to visit your UK-based organisation. We can support you in:
- Suitable visa options for your planned trip
- Evidence to support your visit visa application
- Offshore worker visa issues
Setting up business in the UK
The processes and documentation required for immigration-related practices aren’t always immediately evident to entrepreneurs. We can help ensure that your startup is compliant with immigration practices from the get-go. We can assist you with:
- Advice on appropriate visa routes
- Support throughout the process of application
- Ongoing assistance once you are set up in the UK, hand-in-hand with our employment law support.
Right to Work checks
When it comes to recruitment, employers are legally required to confirm that all employees have the right to work in the UK. We assist you in meeting these obligations when hiring migrant workers, ensuring full compliance with UK immigration laws. Our range of services in this area include:
Right to Work virtual training:
- Covering how to perform checks, maintain accurate records, and handle challenging situations such as expired visas or errors in initial checks.
- We actively encourage questions throughout the session to help address the challenges you may be facing.
Right to Work audits for ongoing compliance
Our experts can carry out an audit on selected employee files, offering advice on rectifying any issues that you may encounter and ensuring continued compliance.
Advice on difficult Right to Work cases
We offer specialist employment advice using knowledge of the immigration system and employment law, including managing complicated dismissal processes where employees do not have the right to work.
Transparent fees for business immigration support services
What sets us apart?
Award-winning legal team
Our legal team has supported over 700 UK organisations, ranging from smaller companies to large FTSE 100 firms, earning accolades for making a real commercial difference.
MyHRCases platform
Swiftly escalate critical legal matters via our market-leading cloud-based ER case management platform, MyHRCases, where our legal team helps you log and manage all your cases in one, easy-to-use system.
High-quality specialist advice
Our lawyers are active members of the Law Society and the Employment Lawyers Association.
We are ranked as specialist employment lawyers in both the Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500 UK guides to law firms.
Armed with high-quality, specialist employment law advice, our expert solicitors offer proactive solutions, empowering you with the guidance and support you need to manage every employee relations matter.
Crown Commercial Service Supplier
ESP Solicitors is proud to be one of 42 law firms appointed to the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Public Sector Legal Services Panel (contract RM6240) for General Service Provision in England and Wales. We have been selected as a preferred supplier for employment law, with this appointment extending until 2026. Previously, we were part of the Wider Public Sector Legal Services Panel (RM3788) from October 2018 to September 2022.
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At ESP Solicitors, we understand that the quality of our relationships with clients is key to effectively managing employment law issues. We take pride in our reputation for delivering strong, high-quality commercial advice.
We focus on building lasting relationships by taking the time to understand your needs and consistently delivering high-quality service. This commitment extends to our experienced support staff, who work diligently to get to know each client, understand their business, and tailor our service to meet their individual requirements.
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Personalised employment law advice
We help busy HR professionals make a real commercial difference to their organisations by offering personalised, integrated and strategic ER solutions.
Personalised employment law advice
We help busy HR professionals make a real commercial difference to their organisations by offering personalised, integrated and strategic ER solutions.
Our team of highly regarded employment law and immigration professionals is dedicated to offering bespoke advice and supporting your specific needs.
Receive unlimited, specialist employment law advice via your own dedicated legal advisory team – helping you to tackle every ER matter, no matter how complex.
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