Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law

Managing Partner: Vanessa Ganguin
Senior Counsel: Philip Trott
Senior Associate: Ben Maitland
Senior Associate: Alexander Finch
Senior Client Manager: Ross Kennedy
Associate Solicitor: Eralda Shullazi

Firm Overview
Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law is a friendly and dynamic immigration practice providing outstanding advice and exceptional service to businesses, individuals and families. The team of well-respected specialists led by founder Vanessa Ganguin has an impeccable record of finding fast solutions, challenging decisions and winning complex cases at all levels.

As a boutique firm, the firm's approachable lawyers are referred business and personal clients from all over the world by financial and legal service professionals who value a tailored, personal service for their clients. Client satisfaction is always a priority.

Since the firm was founded by Vanessa Ganguin, who boasts three decades of UK immigration expertise, it has gone from strength to strength, attracting outstanding immigration specialists, such as Philip Trott "a legendary figure in immigration law” according to Spears, with a glittering career of helping high-profile clients navigate the UK's immigration system as smoothly as possible, all the way through to latest addition to the team Alexander Finch, a real authority on routes for investors, entrepreneurs and nationality matters, who according to one Chambers HNW testimonial is “an authority, always a step ahead solving problems, considering all available options and single-mindedly focused on objectives.”

The boutique practice prides itself on it’s high-quality, responsive service and impeccable advice, making it a go-to for many legal and professional services around the world seeking positive outcomes for their clients when it comes to the ever-changing UK immigration laws. Vanessa and her colleagues are known for their trouble-free, hand-holding approach to all UK immigration and nationality matters, with the range of expertise to offer strategic solutions across all the UK's immigration pathways.

The firm’s senior immigration specialists regularly comment on UK immigration developments in the media, write articles and briefings on immigration matters and are highly-regarded in the major legal directories.

Main Areas of Practice:

Business Immigration:
Sponsor Licences
Sponsor compliance support and training
Global Talent visa
Innovator Founder
Scale-up visa
International Sportsperson visa
Health and Care Worker visa

Global Business Mobility visa:
·Senior or specialist worker to meet specific business needs (this replaces Intra-Company Transfers)
·Graduate trainee as part of a training programme (this replaces the Intra-Company Graduate Trainee route)
·Secondment worker to UK firms in high value contracts or investments
·Service supplier to the UK in line with UK trade agreements (this replaces the T5 International Agreement routes)
·UK expansion worker to establish a UK presence (this replaces Representative of an Overseas Business)
·Religious Worker visas

Temporary Work:
·Creative Worker visa
·Government Authorised Exchange visa
·Charity Worker visa
·International Agreement visa
·Graduate visa

As well as working on next steps with people on legacy visas such as Start Up or Investor and working on routes to settlement.

Personal Immigration:
Family visas (partners, spouses, children, adult dependants)
EEA nationals and family (including late EUSS applications)
British citizenship and naturalisation
Visit visas
British National (Overseas) visa
Youth Mobility Scheme
Ancestry
Long Residence
Human Rights
Appeals, Administrative Reviews and Judicial Reviews.