Bindmans LLP

Immigration, Asylum and Nationality.

Associate, Immigration, Asylum and Nationality team.

Karma has experience across the field of immigration and nationality law.
She undertakes work in a broad range of areas, assisting individuals, organisations and businesses with the following matters, among others:

• • Family-based visas, including partners, parents and children
  • Citizenship and nationality applications for adults and children
  • Applications for indefinite leave to remain/settlement
  • Appeals, judicial review and administrative reviews
  • Entry clearance
  • Sponsor licences and skilled worker visas
  • Global talent applications
  • EUSS and European applications
  • Human rights cases and applications outside the Immigration Rules
  • Asylum claims based on political views, religious beliefs and sexual orientation

Karma has a keen interest in applications involving children, particularly surrogacy and intercountry adoption cases.

She writes for the leading immigration news website, Free Movement, and is responsible for the site’s courses on surrogacy and Article 8 law.

She also delivers regular training for other immigration and family lawyers through MBL Legal Seminars. Topics include surrogacy, the EU Settlement Scheme and British Nationality law.

Karma joined Bindmans LLP as an associate in 2022. She was previously an associate at Bishop & Sewell (2017-2022) and Fisher Meredith (2010-2017), where she qualified in 2012. Before that, she was an immigration paralegal at Birnberg Peirce & Partners (2007-2010), Prior to her legal career, Karma worked in Italy for many years as a journalist, translator and bar manager.

Karma obtained a first-class degree in English and Italian Literature at Royal Holloway University of London in 1998. She later studied for a Graduate Diploma in Law, followed by the Legal Practice Course, for which she was awarded a distinction. She holds an LLM (Merit) in International Human Rights Law from the LSE.