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Business immigration support

Helping you recruit global talent and protect your organisation from immigration risk.

Protect your business and support growth

Expanding your workforce internationally or transferring skilled employees to the UK can be a smart move. However, UK immigration compliance is becoming increasingly complex, with enforcement action on the rise. Getting it wrong can lead to fines, disruption and reputational damage.

Whether you’re hiring overseas workers or responding to a civil penalty notice, our specialist immigration lawyers provide clear, practical advice to help protect your business.

We support organisations of all sizes, across all sectors, with commercially focused guidance to help you stay compliant and move forward with confidence.

With immigration rules constantly evolving, no two scenarios are the same. When you need bespoke advice tailored to your organisation, including ensuring compliance and having the right policies in place, you can trust our immigration lawyers—you’re in capable hands.

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Why choose us?

1

Strategic

We provide clear, pragmatic legal advice, tailored to your organisation. Every recommendation is focused on practical solutions that help you to stay complaint.

2

Responsive

Our team reacts quickly to civil penalty notices, Home Office enquiries or urgent recruitment challenges, keeping your business on track and reducing operational risk.

3

Trusted

With extensive experience across organisations of all sizes, we proactively manage risk and provide ongoing support. You can rely on us to safeguard your operations and guide you with confidence.

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Our immigration services for businesses

Sponsor licence support

Recruit international talent with confidence.

If your organisation needs to employ skilled workers from overseas, you must hold a valid sponsor licence and meet strict compliance requirements.

Our experienced immigration lawyers support employers with:

Sponsor licence applications
Licence renewals and variations
Compliance systems and processes
Mock audits and training
Ongoing licence management
Advice on sponsored worker requirements

This ensures that you:

Reduce the risk of delays or refusals
Have compliant systems in place from the outset
Enable long-term workforce planning, enabling you to focus on business growth

Civil penalty and illegal working support

Act quickly to protect your organisation. We offer fast same-day advice to help you respond within the 28 day window to help you avoid the penalties which can reach up to £45,000 per illegal worker for the first breach and £60,000 for repeat breaches.

Our immigration lawyers are on hand to provide urgent legal support, including:

Respond to Home Office civil penalty notices
Challenge or mitigate fines
Review right to work procedures
Prepare for enforcement action
Protect existing sponsor licences
Reduce future compliance risk

Helping you to protect your reputation, financial exposure and maintain operational continuity.

What our clients say

Flora Mewies was exceptional. If she was unable to speak when I called or emailed, she always reverted very quickly and went beyond my expectations in responding. She provided very clear practical advice throughout and was very happy to give her opinion on the most appropriate strategy whenever asked.

Legal 500 2025
Flora Mewies is an exceptional immigration advisor, always at hand to give excellent advice at a moments notice, if she is unable to reply immediately then she will set expectations on timing of replies or ask one of her colleagues to assist.

Legal 500
We were supported every step of the way, the advice was clear and detailed and provided promptly at every stage.

Ron Stower, Managing Director, Janome UK Ltd
Laura Darnley is technically very sound and her attention to detail is excellent. We have worked alongside Laura on some complex employment matters where we needed her input on the immigration side and she is a pleasure to work with.

Legal 500 2025

A national law firm with regional value

Ward Hadaway is a UK Top 100 law firm, with offices in Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Teesside, and clients across England and Wales. Our team of dedicated, specialist immigration solicitors work interactively with our clients to secure a range of visas, dependent on each individual circumstance.