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Zehra is a  specialist solicitors in all aspects of business and personal immigration law, advising corporate and private clients on a range of immigration issues.

If you choose to work with Zehra, you will receive the best possible customer service. From the initial meeting to submitting a case she stands by your side.

Zehra specialises in appeals and judicial review related cases. She is an articulate negotiator and being able to settle with Home Office without the need for the full hearing in most of her cases.  She works for a number of corporate immigration clients, assisting in their day-to-day HR immigration issues and in the recruitment of non-EEA nationals. She also specialises in personal immigration, advising private clients on all aspect of PBS.

She advises on immigration matters including but not limited to applications under Tiers 1-5 of the Points Based System, EEA applications, domestic workers, students, family cases, including unmarried partner and marriage visas, settlement and applications for British citizenship. She is an expert in Ankara Agreement and helps out her clients both already in the UK or in Turkey.

Besides being an expert in immigration law, Zehra has significant experience in family law including children related matters and divorce and provide practical and straightforward advice in them.

Zehra is an experienced solicitor in all aspects of family law. She advises her clients in respect of areas such as divorce, dissolution of civil partnerships, financial settlement matters (including pre-owned assets and post-marriage assets), spousal maintenance, business assets, pensions and proceedings under Schedule 1 Children Act 1989.

Zehra has a special interest in matters involving children. She advises her clients in private children matters including but not limited to applications for special guardianship, applications for parental responsibility, applications under section 8 of the Children Act 1989 (i.e. where a child is to live and how often they have contact with the other parent) and prohibited steps orders. She has also assisted her clients in matters involving domestic violence (i.e. applications for non-molestation and occupation orders) and parental conflict and/or cases where serious allegations were raised. She has been successfully representing parents in private children matters where allegations of misuse of substance had been made against them by other parents.

Zehra deals with various private children matters where successful mediations could be carried out and agreement amongst both parents could be reached without a need for a stressful, long and frustrating Court process. She has assisted her clients in the steps before attending Court in trying to coming to an agreement about contact and advising them on the necessary steps for mediation.

Zehra has a caring, sympathetic and considerate approach to her clients. She likes to listen to her clients in detail and she has thorough attention to detail. She is known to be a strategic thinker and aims to provide a pragmatic approach to her clients throughout their case. She always updates her clients timely and takes their instructions. She stands by her clients until the end of their case and her only purpose is to achieve the best possible result for her clients.

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