SM&B provides legal advice and representation in all immigration applications to the UK Border Agency, including:
• Entry clearance and leave to enter applications (visa applications);
• Further leave to remain (extension applications);
• Indefinite leave to remain (settlement applications);
• Claims for recognition as a refugee;
• Claims for protection under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR);
• Appeals to the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT);
• Applications for bail (both to chief immigration officers and the AIT).
More specifically we can assist with applications in the following categories:
• Visitors (including business, medical and family visitors).
• Students.
• Dependant relatives.
• Certificate of approval for marriages in the UK.
• Applications relating to married, unmarried, civil and engaged partners.
• Indefinite leave to remain on the grounds of marriage to or civil partnership with a British citizen;
• Indefinite leave to remain on the grounds of employment (eg work permit holders and HSMP participants);
• Indefinite leave to remain on the grounds of 10 years' lawful residence in the UK.
• Indefinite leave to remain on the grounds of 14 years unlawful residence in the UK.
• Indefinite leave to remain on behalf of persons exempt from immigration control (eg members of the Armed Forces and diplomats).
• Applications for humanitarian protection and discretionary leave;
• Registration certificates for EEA family members of EEA nationals.
• Residence cards for non-EEA family members of EEA nationals.
• Residence stamps for non-EEA family member of Accession State nationals.
• Applications for registration certificate under the Workers Registration Scheme for nationals of Accession States.
• Applications relating to inter-country adoptions.
• Postgraduate doctors and dentists.
• Student nurses.
• Applications based on clinical attachments, dental observer posts and PLAB tests.
• Au pairs.
• Applications for leave to enter or remain in order to exercise rights of access to a UK resident child.