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Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law Offices
81 Rivington Street
LONDON
EC2A 3AY
England
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Ben Maitland
Work Department
UK immigration
Position
Senior Associate
Career
An immigration expert with two decades of experience of working in senior positions in some of the top-ranking immigration firms in the UK, as well as writing about UK immigration law developments for Lexis, Ben Maitland joined Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law in October 2022.
He has extensive experience and a wealth of immigration knowledge in a wide variety of both business and private immigration matters allowing him to successfully navigate the UK’s ever-changing immigration system offering the full-spectrum of immigration solutions for his clients.
Ben regularly advises on Skilled Worker and Global Business Mobility routes as well as the Graduate, Scale-up,Innovator Founder and High Potential Individual routes as well as Entrepreneur extensions.
Ben has also worked on the new Global Business Mobility – UK Expansion Worker sponsor licence for businesses establishing a presence in the UK, regarding which he had drafted the Practice Note on at Lexis.
Ben is one of only a dozen expert immigration lawyers on the Lexis Nexis Consulting Editorial Board for immigration law.
Ben’s illustrious legal career has included many Global Talent visas as well as providing High Net Worth individuals tactical advice on how to obtain Indefinite Leave to Remain and British citizenship, especially in complex cases where applicants are at risk of failing to meet all the required criteria.
Both Ben Maitland and Philip Trott who he joins at the firm led one of the first nationality cases heard under the Special Immigration Appeals Commission.
As well as an encyclopaedic knowledge of point-based work immigration routes and sponsorship matters, Ben brings a wealth of experience of conducting Human Rights Article 8 applications, spouse/partner applications and Immigration Appeals, Administrative review and Judicial reviews.
Ben regularly writes articles, trains and presents on all aspects of immigration law too.
Languages
French
Memberships
Law Society
American Immigration Lawyers Association
Employment Lawyers Association
Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association
Partners Immigration
Association of European Attorneys
tech UK
BritishAmerican Business
French Chamber of Great Britain
German Chamber of Commerce in the United Kingdom
Australia-UK Chamber of Commerce
Lawyer Rankings
London > Employment > Immigration
The immigration boutique Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law covers the full scope of immigration work, acting for a range of clients across a range of sectors including media, sport, financial services, and tech. The practice is led by the ‘impressive‘ Vanessa Ganguin
, whose substantial expertise straddles the full range of business and personal immigration matters across a number of industries. Senior counsel Philip Trott is also noted for his significant experience, which he employs for complex work arising in relation to discretionary applications and national security issues. Senior associates Ben Maitland and Anushka Sinha bolstered the team with their arrivals in October 2022 and January 2023 respectively, and are key contacts within the department, as is ‘solutions-focused’ senior client manager Ross Kennedy.