Immigration counsel for employers: securing your sponsor licence, protecting your right-to-work compliance, and defending you when the Home Office acts.
A sponsor licence is a privilege the Home Office can take back.
We prepare your application as if the compliance visit is already booked, with key personnel, HR systems and right-to-work evidence ready for inspection before you submit. Once the licence is granted, mock audits and health checks are designed to leave a UKVI officer nothing to find.
One missed check can cost £45,000 per worker, and £60,000 on a repeat.
A right-to-work check only protects you if it was done exactly right. That is your statutory excuse, and we build checking systems that hold up under inspection. When a civil penalty notice lands we fight it, by objection, by appeal or by negotiating it down.
A suspension letter is not the end of your licence.
You have twenty working days to answer, and every sponsored worker’s visa is on the line. We take the allegations apart point by point and put representations and an action plan in front of the caseworker that deal with each ground head-on.
The 98 principal immigration detention facilities across the Five Eyes nations, each one mapped to its source. Open any centre for its operator, its capacity and the independent visitors’ groups who support the people held there.
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The Firm
Sadia Bhatti
Principal Solicitor · immigrationely
Dual-qualified in England & Wales and Pakistan
Sadia leads immigrationely’s work in personal and business immigration, with a background in immigration and public law. Her approach combines clear advice, careful preparation and practical representation.
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Case Files
Student Visas
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Family / CoS
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European Applications
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Other Personal Immigration
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Case Files
Sponsor Licence Applications & Compliance
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Right to Work & Civil Penalty Defence
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Sponsor Licence Suspension & Revocation Defence
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