Lewis Silkin

Immigration

I have been working in UK immigration since 2007 and have seen a lot since then. I have benefitted from some excellent experience learning from leaders in the field, specialising in both corporate and high net worth immigration.

I came to UK immigration law after completing my own Highly Skilled Migrant Program visa application and moving here from Sydney via Sweden. I understand the excitement and anxiety that the journey brings and enjoy helping to enable the opportunity that any international move entails.

These days I have built up a specialism in sponsor compliance, having defended many sponsor licence suspensions and illegal working penalties which are a chance to highlight our firm's strength and depth in both employment and immigration. Although it is somewhat litigious in nature, it is resolving the issue as practically and amicably as possible which I relish.

I assist with the full range of immigration applications from complex naturalisation, global talent, creative worker, licences and all forms of sponsored visas to family and moves of large numbers of workers for big business projects both onshore and offshore. This spans the gambit of industries but in particular biotech, tech, AI, energy, medical, advertising, music and entertainment.

Immigration law is frequently driven by the policies behind it and as such I try to stay in touch with the policy makers, feed into their research and guidance and influence this wherever possible and appropriate. This also helps me to advise companies on where to take their own immigration policies in the future.

Naomi is a member of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association and regularly contributes to Home Office and Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) projects.

Naomi holds a double degree awarded by the University of Technology Sydney in 2005 and 2006 for a Bachelor of Arts, Communications in Social Inquiry and a Bachelor of Laws.

Naomi qualified as a solicitor in New South Wales, Australia in 2008 after completing the Practical Law Training and then in England and Wales in January 2010 after completing the Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test.

Naomi has also completed a short course in Global Migration from Oxford University since then and has specialised in UK immigration law since 2007.