Mark Briegal is a highly experienced legal adviser for all matters concerning immigration and nationality law, working with companies, investors and high-earning individuals seeking to develop businesses or work in the UK. Mark is passionate about creating a market-leading, distinctive practice, recognised for its expertise in all areas of immigration law – both contentious and non-contentious – as well as advising in complementary areas of law. In addition to his immigration law expertise, Mark is experienced in advising on a wide range of commercial and civil litigation matters, including cross-border commercial contract disputes. He also advises on matters relating to debt recovery and professional negligence.

Mark works closely with successful public and private businesses seeking to recruit key specialist talent from non-EU countries helping them to negotiate the entry rules to Great Britain with the minimum of fuss and expense.

He also advises individuals coming to work in the UK for a fixed period from non-EU countries, including those involved in entertainment and sports, to obtain the correct credentials for the duration of their stay.

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Martin Hawkes is a leading legal advisor at McGuire & Partners Law Firm. Martin is a rare find in today’s legal world; a qualified lawyer since 1994, he has experience of all areas of immigration law, specializing particularly in matters relating to Asylum and Human Rights.

Martin has built a reputation for resolving seemingly futile issues and continues to apply his expertise when handling matters such as; business immigration, highly skilled migrant applications and applications of judicial review.Having dealt with all kinds of entry clearance appeals Martin uses a reliable steadfast approach throughout the entire process; from preparing the appeal paperwork, producing evidence in support, advising clients and attending tribunals to represent clients

Matt Goode is widely acclaimed as a leading Immigration & Nationality Law specialist with more than 23 years experience in Immigration and Nationality law. He is well known for his expertise among various communities in the U.K and appears on T.V programmes regarding the development and practice of Immigration law in the U.K.

His main areas of practice are in Nationality Law, Personal and Business Immigration, as well as in all types of Immigration appeal matters. He has a wide range of experience and expertise in dealing with over-stayers, illegal overstayers and human rights issues.Prior to joining McGuire & Partners Law Firm, Matt Goode had worked with a number of leading immigration law firms rising to head of department. He can handle the most complex and complicated immigration cases including Judicial and Statutory Reviews.

Contact Matt at [email protected]

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Rishi Verma is a Senior Legal Advisor with an extensive experience in immigration for the last 6 years. She has worked intensively with senior Barristers in the field of Asylum and all other applications based on the grounds of human rights.

She has worked on cases both nationally and internationally, with a focus on women’s rights, children’s rights and the rule of law. She has won the most crucial and complicated cases in the Upper Tribunal and Court of Appeal under the Human Rights law. She has also dealt with numerous cases which were outside the immigration rules criteria requesting the UKBA’s discretion highlighting family and private life in the UK.

Lately, her remarkable performance is mentionable in the matters of overstayed families with children who have resided in the UK for more than years

Tom Blackburn joined McGuire & Partners Law Firm in 2015, bringing with him over seven years’ of experience in dealing with all areas of private and commercial immigration.His experience in personal immigration includes applications under the Points Based System mainly Tier 1 (Investor, Entrepreneur & Graduate Entrepreneur), Tier 2 (General and Intra Company Transfer (ICT) for both long term and short term staff) and Tier 4 (General).

Tom also deals with complex immigration matters for clients including advice on the family applications, spouse/ unmarried partner/ civil partner visa applications; dependent relative visa applications, British citizenship, European Union, Human Rights and Visitors visa applications. Tom has worked on numerous EU free movement cases and in challenges to the extended family member provisions with particular reference to durable relationships (unmarried partners).He has represented clients with their premium applications appointments at the Home Office Public Enquiry Office in Croydon on numerous occasions. He has also repeatedly accompanied clients with their marriage interviews at the Liverpool nationality centre.

He holds a Bachelor degree in Business IT and a Graduate Diploma in Law from the London Metropolitan University. He also completed a legal practice course (LPC) in 2013 at the London Metropolitan University with commendation.