Mrs Sally McEwen > OTB Legal > Nottingham, England > Lawyer Profile
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Creative House, Chase Park
Daleside Road
Nottinghamshire
NG2 4GT
England
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Mrs Sally McEwen
Work Department
Corporate Immigration
Position
Sally McEwen is a director and cofounder of OTB Legal
Sally completed her law degree at the University of Essex. She has been practising immigration law for 19 years. Prior to becoming a Director at OTB Legal, Sally has worked in private practice for both niche immigration law firms, and in immigration departments for larger firms, being head of the immigration team at a London firm. Sally also spent time working for a large not for profit organisation.
Sally is an experienced advocate in both the First Tier, and Upper Tier Tribunals.
Areas of Expertise
Sally specialises in all aspects of the Points Based System (Tier 1 (Investor) and Entrepreneur), Tier 2 sponsor licences, and Tier 2 employment and Tier 4 student and sponsor licences)
Level 2 Accredited Advisor and Supervisor under the Solicitors Regulation Authority Immigration and Asylum Accreditation Scheme
Country Guidance cases of AA (Non-Arab Darfuris – relocation) Sudan CG [2009] UKAIT 00056 and MN and others (Ahmadis – country conditions – risk) Pakistan CG [2012] UKUT 00389 (IAC)
Level 2 Accredited Advisor and Supervisor under the Law Society Immigration and Asylum Accreditation Scheme.
Sally was instructed as the immigration advisor on the documentary programme ‘Exposure Undercover Colleges’ .
Career
Sally is head of the OTB Legal Corporate Team and specialises in business immigration and has extensive knowledge in all aspects of corporate and business immigration. Sally acts for a wide range of businesses, both national and multinational with a particular focus in tech start-up companies, as well as business individuals.
Sally has significant experienced in dealing with appeals before the First Tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal.
Sally deals with complex immigration matters related to company sponsor licences and assists clients with successfully completing Home Office audit processes.
Lawyer Rankings
East Midlands > Employment > Immigration
(Leading Individuals)At OTB Legal, founding partner Mark Lilley-Tams heads the personal immigration department, with a caseload consisting of a range of deprivation of citizenship matters, including a landmark case in which a client is facing deprivation on the basis of criminality, in addition to a number of judicial review applications. Fellow co-founder Sally McEwen leads the business immigration arm, with a particular focus on technology, gaming and tech start-up companies. She routinely assists clients with sponsor licences, entry clearance, switching and change of employment applications, and Home Office auditory processes. Associate Lydia Watkinson likewise focuses on sponsorship, and is a go-to lawyer for individuals relocating from Hong Kong thanks to her specialism in the Hong Kong (BNO) visa. The team was further bolstered by the arrival of Emma Cohen from Bindmans LLP in February 2023.