Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law > London, England > Firm Profile

Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law is a leading boutique immigration practice advising on all UK immigration and nationality matters with a personal, partner-led approach. The firm is renowned for a hands-on, responsive, friendly ethos, along with exceptional know-how and service that goes that extra mile.

The firm: Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law is a highly regarded firm that provides the full range of UK immigration and nationality advice services to business and private clients in the UK and all over the world.

The partner-led approach ensures that every client, large or small, receives the highest quality legal advice available, and the firm is particularly known for its accessibility, responsiveness, efficiency and friendly manner.

Vanessa and her colleagues are recognised as leaders in their field by all the major legal publications, including Who’s Who Legal, The Legal 500, Best Lawyers, The Times Best Law Firms  and Chambers & Partners.

With 30 years of experience Vanessa Ganguin is renowned for her meticulousness and a phenomenal success rate at overcoming adverse decisions and tricky situations. She has an extensive network of contacts with key Home Office operational and policy personnel and has actively participated in developing UK immigration policy.

As well as a range of Home Office and consular connections that it can consult, the firm has an extensive network of legal experts in other areas and jurisdictions and other professional services to work with to ensure that its clients’ wider needs establishing themselves in the UK are met.

Types of work undertaken
Business and employers: as a niche practice Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law understands the needs and challenges of different commercial enterprises. From individual investors and entrepreneurs to multinational corporations, its vast experience has seen the firm advise on every aspect of the sponsor licence system. It is well versed in all aspects of immigration relating to employees, directors, partners, consultants/contractors and sole representatives. The firm provides the highest level of bespoke advice.

Individuals and families: Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law guides individuals through all types of applications including visitor, student, worker and discretionary outside the immigration rules, and also those involving human rights issues, citizenship, indefinite leave to remain, dependants and other family members. The firm has an impressive track record of creative solutions both within the immigration rules and on a discretionary basis outside the rules.

Global Talent, founders and entrepreneurs: the firm specialises in the Global Talent visas for the arts and sciences. Senior Associate Anushka Sinha frequently teaches courses on the coveted route as well as other tech routes to industry peers and the tech and creative sectors.

Founders, entrepreneurs, investors, start-ups, established businesses and individuals also seek out the firm’s expertise when considering their short- and long-term needs. By dovetailing its service with professionals such as clients’ accountants, tax advisers and property consultants, Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law ensures all needs are met. Its service provides strategic advice from the outset, and always factors in the ever-changing legislation, as well as help in switching to other categories, negotiating the rules on dependants, indefinite leave to remain and citizenship.

Appeals and judicial review: Vanessa Ganguin has decades of experience winning statutory appeals in the tribunals and higher courts, not to mention successful administrative and judicial reviews. The firm works with only the very best barristers in the field and its expertise extends to appeals involving all types of human rights issues. It is consistently successful when challenging decisions by way of appeal (where rights are available), administrative review and judicial review.

Having led hundreds of human rights and asylum appeals in her early career in immigration and established a human rights and appeals team in another top London practice, Vanessa’s distinctive USP is her ability to advise on the thornier immigration issues.