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Search for someone to help you with advice and applications to stay in the UK - free and paid-for services, adviser levels 1, 2, 3 and complaints.
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We are stepping up action to support regulatory action and prosecution of unscrupulous lawyers, with a new dedicated taskforce and tougher sentences.
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) provides lists of English-speaking lawyers abroad to help British nationals find the legal support they need.
A bogus immigration lawyer with no licence to practise has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years for exploiting at least 19 victims for huge financial gain.
OISC has created a table containing charges related to providing unlawful immigration advice or fraud and the arrest warrants of those who failed to appear at court.
Form: Use IAUT5 to confirm you meet the legal requirements to provide immigration advice or immigration services.
Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) regulates immigration advisers; ensuring they are fit, competent and act in their clients’ best interests OISC is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Home Office .
Three suspected fraudulent immigration lawyers have been arrested in Greater Manchester following a Home Office raid on Wednesday 24 January.
An explanation of the people who may be present in an immigration and asylum tribunal hearing.
How immigrants held on immigration issues can apply for bail while they wait for an appeal, review or removal.
We are responsible for handling appeals against some decisions made by the Home Office relating to: permission to stay in the UK deportation from the UK entry clearance to the UK We also handle applications for immigration bail from people...
Documents, certificate, letters, and notes available from the British embassy and consulates in the USA.
We’re responsible for handling appeals against decisions made by the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum) relating to visa applications, asylum applications and the right to enter or stay in the UK. We also handle applications for judicial review of certain...
Resources to watch, download and use such as our awareness posters now available in twenty languages with a Bulgarian language version now available.
When and how to appeal against a visa, asylum or immigration decision - appeals to the immigration and asylum tribunal, administrative review, fees, forms, further submissions
How to appeal if a decision has been made to remove you from the United Kingdom, stop you entering the United Kingdom, or take away your British Citizenship, in the interests of nationality security or on other related grounds.
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