Immigration for Individuals
Overview
Vincent Buffoni and Co began its life as a niche immigration practice, advising individuals and indeed businesses on all types of immigration matters .It has always been result orientated such that we as a firm use our best endeavours to achieve the positive responses from the Border Agency. Vincent Buffoni and Co as a firm is a member of the Immigration Law Practitioner’s Association and ensure that we are abreast of all new developments in Immigration Law which has recently been subject to dramatic change.
Our firm is one of approximately 55 legal firms shown on the UK Border Agency Website who may be able to assist Employers with the process of getting on to the Sponsors Register to enable them to take on non EU Nationals under the Tier 2 of the Government’s points based system ( although firms not on the Border Agency Website may also be able to assist you). The Border Agency has stated that these firms have been put on their list as they have “a good understanding of the sponsorship arrangements and have provided us with evidence about the type of checks and services they will make when working with clients. They are able to provide prospective sponsors with a document which assesses their readiness to make a sponsorship application……Where such documents are submitted to us, we will not normally duplicate the checks we expect these organisations to have already made. As such, we would expect to make decisions on applications supported by one of these documents…well within the standard six week turnaround. However, we reserve the right to carry out checks and to visit any prospective sponsor as part of the sponsorship application and management process at any time.”
The new UK Immigration system which has been introduced in stages between 2008/ 2009, consolidates the many complex routes of the old immigration system into just five tiers. We point out here the Tiers that are relevant to businesses.
For Business
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Tier System
Tier 2 - Sponsored Skilled Workers
Tier 2 - Ministers of Religion
Permanent/Settlement Residence
It should be noted that as legal representatives we cannot present Tier 4 applications ourselves as the applicant needs to be present at the Border Agency to provide their biometrics.