Immigration solicitor needed

[designforlife]

Can anyone recommend a good UK based immigration solicitor? My wife and I are having a terrible time with a London firm we've paid, but the service is awful.

We need to get her spouse visa processed in the next 3 weeks or so, and are incredibly worried.

We are almost out of money and at a loss of what to do, we want to cut and run and find someone good and trustworthy, but the money is thinning out

If anyone is, or knows a good immigration solicitor, a PM would be gratefully received. cheers

[designforlife]

Breadvan72 said:

https://www.plsimon.co.uk/

Passed my wife around to 4 different people then hung up on her this morning, so they're a no go!

[designforlife]

She's going from a tier 4 to a spouse visa, and shes from the USA, been here in the UK 2 years.

long story short we booked a 3 week trip out to see her family in december coming, before we moved our wedding up, so got to use priority so we get her new visa and BRP back in time.

Also she is finishing up her masters here in the UK, and needs to be on a spouse visa so she can apply for full time NHS jobs here, you can't do that on a tier 4.

Hence the need to do it through priority.

Edited by designforlife on Monday 13th August 13:51

[designforlife]

We are actually looking at the same day service now, nothing in croydon for the next 45 days, so looks like a day trip to cardiff/sheffield/b'ham will probably be happening.

We found a new firm as of this morning, and they seem pretty on the ball with this, so fingers crossed.

Yup, all in i think it's probably going to run us about £3k.

[designforlife]

donkmeister said:

agtlaw said:

donkmeister said:

Out of interest, why are specialist solicitors required for this?

If I'm having heart surgery then I go see a heart surgeon (rather than a knee surgeon). Similar considerations apply to legal professionals.

Sorry, my question was ambiguous... What I meant to ask is why a solicitor is required at all. I thought it's one of those things where you either meet a set of criteria or you don't, so wondering what value is added.

there are circumstances where having the correct legal letters as part of your application smoothes certain issues over, it's a bit of added peace of mind when the home office throw out applications for the smallest error or oversight.

Also any scanned copies of documents need to be certified by a solicitor anyway, so at minimum that needs doing.

we could risk doing it ourselves, but frankly, it's not worth the risk and added delay in our position.

It's not so much meeting the criteria that's the issue (for us anyway), the hard part is knowing what and how much supporting information you need to supply, and providing and presenting it in the correct legal way.

[designforlife]

Not entirely sure what you mean by that, but you're welcome to PM me