Stone King LLP has a small specialist immigration team based in its Cambridge office that frequently assists clients in the education sector with workforce shortages and supports teachers in obtaining Skilled Worker visas to come to the UK. The practice, which is led by Julie Moktadir, is also deeply involved with the charity and not-for-profit sector, particularly faith-based charities wishing to recruit outside of the UK. The firm has assisted numerous religious organisations with sponsor licence applications, having advised on Minister of Religion and Religious Worker visas with a 100% success rate. It also handles private client and business immigration matters, frequently acting for start-up companies seeking to appoint science and technology graduates.
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Key clients
- Eastern Learning Alliance
- Centre For Public Impact Europe
- The Charter Schools Educational Trust
- St Olave’s Grammar School
- Cooperative AI Foundation
- Graveney Trust
- Future Academies
- Proact IT UK Limited
- Unity Schools Trust
- Ashford School
- Felsted School
Work highlights
- Advised on a sponsor licence on to enable Centre for Public Impact Europe to sponsor overseas workers to work in the UK.
- Acting for a school to submit a sponsor licence application to enable it to employee overseas national workers to come to the UK and avoid shortages in the workforce.
- Acting for Proact IT UK Limited to submit an application for a sponsor licence in order to recruit overseas individuals to vacancies which it is struggling to fill in the UK.
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Julie Moktadir