Georgina Griggs > Richmond Chambers LLP > London, England > Barrister Profile

Georgina Griggs

Work Department

Immigration

Position

Immigration Barrister

Career

Since joining Richmond Chambers, Georgina has developed a broad range of experience having worked on a variety of immigration cases, including both personal and business immigration law matters. She has worked with migrants to gain entry to the UK, to extend their stay in the UK, and to settle and naturalise as British.

Georgina has a particular interest in business immigration matters. Though a large proportion of Georgina’s practice involves assisting organisations to apply for, and maintain, Sponsor Licences in order to sponsor migrants to work in the UK,  Georgina’s practice covers all areas of business immigration. Her practice includes: Skilled Worker and Minister of Religion applications, Innovator Founder (endorsement and immigration applications), Global Talent applications (particularly endorsement applicants to Tech Nation now Founders Forum), and Global Business Mobility applications, including Senior / Specialist and Expansion Workers. Georgina also assists with extension applications for the Representative of an Overseas Business, Tier 1 (Entrepreneur), and Tier 1 (Investor) routes following the closure to new applicants.

Georgina enjoys keeping a varied practice and working on personal immigration cases. She has considerable experience working on Appendix FM applications, including spouses / civil partners, fiancé(e)s / proposed civil partners, and adult dependent relative visas, as well as EEA and human rights applications.

Georgina has assisted with, and herself prepared, numerous successful human rights and EEA appeals against decisions of the Secretary of State for the Home Department and Entry Clearance Officers. She has also been successful in challenging decisions of the Secretary of State by way of pre-action protocol and judicial review. Georgina has also appeared in numerous First-tier Tribunal hearings including appeal hearings, bail hearings, and CMRs.

Georgina previously worked at the Government Legal Department, where she advised Home Office caseworkers on merits of judicial review claims against immigration decisions. She developed a sound understanding of judicial review procedures and processes, as well as experience in family and private life, asylum, and points-based system cases. She also worked on high-profile cases whilst advising the Home Office, including the litigation following the BBC Documentary “Panorama: Britain’s Immigration Secrets”.

Georgina’s previous experience also includes working at the Home Office where she worked for UK Visas and Immigration as a litigation caseworker.

Georgina enjoys writing about changes to the UK’s immigration law and publishing blogs on Chambers’ website.

Languages

Welsh

Memberships

Bar Council of England & Wales

Immigration Law Practitioners Association

Education

Bar Professional Training Course, University of Law

Graduate Diploma in Law, BPP University

BA (Hons) in Theology, University of Durham