Paragon Law

This “Immigration Law Powerhouse” is known, in equal measures, for their corporate immigration law know-how and their ground-breaking asylum and human rights work.  The firm is highly regarded by clients and peers for handling complex and high profile cases.

As a niche immigration law firm, we offer the full range of services to companies and individuals.  Our client based is varied and includes large public companies, local authorities, charities, start-ups, universities, owner-managed businesses and individuals, a number of which are well known in sports and entertainment.  Our clients are both UK based and an international community of clients that are looking to locate either themselves, their family or business in the UK.  The firm acts for significant families from regions such as Asia, West Africa and the Middle East.

The firm: Paragon Law is one of the largest immigration law teams in the UK.  The team would be a sizeable department in a multi-service firm.

The firm’s founders have a strong commitment to human rights and “building bridges and not walls”.  This is demonstrated in the choice of our niche practice area.  We are proud to be a multi-award-winning firm and in particular to be recognised for being as diverse as the clients that we represent.

Types of work undertaken: The firm has the expertise to handle any project or problem that has a UK immigration law or policy angle to it.  The practice is divided into three core areas.

Corporate immigration and business services: Our work includes UK sponsor licence applications (across all Tiers), sponsor licence management for key clients, immigration law training and audits of HR processes.  The firm has particular expertise in advising clients who are multisite or are part of a group of companies with sister offices overseas.  The firm also has successful experience of overturning sponsor licence revocations and successfully challenging civil penalty notices.  We are retained by a number of HR teams to ensure that systems and processes are maintained and compliant with UKVI sponsorship duties.

For setting up businesses in the UK our expertise includes business visitor applications, advising businesses that are looking to set up through sending senior personnel via the UK Expansion Visa or transferring key staff to overseas sister companies as senior or specialist workers.

The firm is also active in advising educational institutions and their international students.  The firm has nine universities as clients.

EU-UK Immigration Services – Paragon Law are active in advising companies and individuals from the EU who require teams in the UK to service projects and contracts. The Brexit team at Paragon Law also advise UK companies and their staff in respective travel to the EU and the provisions of the EU-UK Trade Agreement.

Personal immigration: We advise individuals and families in the entire immigration process.  This includes visa applications, extension applications, Indefinite Leave to Remain and British citizenship.  The immigration team are able to handle difficult and complex cases which quite often require legal arguments under the Human Rights Act.  We have obtained a number of exceptional decisions where the UKVI have exercised their discretion.

Asylum and human rights: Human Rights expertise includes claiming asylum in the UK, advice for children seeking asylum, family reunion applications and appeals at all stages including the First-Tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal, the Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights.  The team are also able to pursue Judicial Review applications to the High Court and obtain emergency injunctions.