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Asylum and Protection
Our advisers are authorised to undertake the following work:
- Notifying UKVI of a change of address.
- Straightforward applications to vary the conditions attached to leave granted, including conditions attached to bail granted by the Secretary of State, for example the right to work or study, restrictions on residence or reporting requirements.
- Straightforward applications for leave in line, or refugee status in line for the UK born children of refugees and people with humanitarian protection.
We are unable to carry out substantive asylum work, such as making applications or appeals.
Immigration
Our immigration adviser can undertake the following work:
Applications for entry clearance, Leave to Enter or Leave to Remain
Basic applications that are within the Immigration Rules to include the following categories:
- Visitors
- Spouses/unmarried partners under the five-year route
- Fiancées
- Other dependent relatives
- Settled and Pre-settled Status application
- Points Based Immigration System applications
- Other work visas permitted under the rules (for example – UK Ancestry Visa or Frontier Worker Permit)
- Applications covering extensions of stay and settlement under Appendix ECAA, formerly covered by the European Communities Association Agreement (ECAA).
- Diplomats, their family members and domestic staff
- BN(O) Status Holder
The PNN adviser making the applications listed above must satisfy himself that the clients can succeed on the available evidence, without relying on human rights grounds. Where such grounds exist, it will be important that the claim is comprehensively argued, explained and documented and, as such, the case should be referred to a higher-level adviser.
The PNN adviser may make applications under Paragraph 276A of the Immigration Rules where there are no periods of overstaying outside the period relied upon, or any other factors which would require further representations.
The PNN adviser may deal with out-of-time applications made within 14 days of the client’s leave having expired, where there is good reason for the delay that was beyond the adviser’s or his client’s control.
The PNN adviser may make some late applications under the EU Settlement Scheme in accordance with the OISC Guidance note on EUSS Applications.
An application under the Victims of Domestic Violence Concession to vary leave in order to gain access to public funds may be conducted by the PNN adviser.
Administrative Review
The PNN adviser can lodge and deal with an application for Administrative Review, with the exception of applications refused on the basis of credibility, or a fundamental issue of genuineness of documents, or relationships.
Varying conditions of leave
The PNN adviser can make straightforward applications to vary the conditions attached to leave granted. For example, an application to remove the condition related to ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’.
The adviser may also apply to vary the conditions already set for clients on bail granted by the Secretary of State, for example the right to work or study, restrictions on residence, or reporting requirements.
Nationality and Citizenship under UK law
The PNN adviser can make basic applications for:
- Registration of a child as a British Citizen
- Naturalisation as a British Citizen
- Confirmation of British Nationality status.
Reconsideration of Nationality Applications
The PNN adviser can make applications for reconsideration on the basis of Nationality, where there has been a failure by the Home Office to recognise that required information was submitted, or a decision has been made prematurely, but not where the decision is believed to be incorrect according to law.
What we can do for you