Legal Fees

Our Legal Fees are as follows:                                                    

Consultation Fess        (30 minutes)   

£100 plus VAT (20%)

LTR in the UK under Tier 5 (Religious/ Charity workers, international agreements)

£1500 plus VAT (20%)

Asylum/ Humanitarian claim including representation either at the screening or substantive

£1000 no VAT applicable

Application for leave under Tier 4 (general)-student

£1300 plus VAT (20%)

Detention Centre/Police Station attendance

£500 plus VAT (20%)

Entry Clearance/LTE, EEA family member, Partner or parent of an EEA national child or British Child

£1000 no VAT applicable

Application for LTR outside immigration rules

£1500 no VAT applicable

EEA residence card as an EEA family member/partner/parent of an EEA CHILD OR British Citizen Child

£1200 plus VAT (20%)

Complex cases such as 10 years or 20 years route

£1300 no VAT applicable

Settlement such as 5 or 6 years DL routes

£1100 plus VAT (20%)

Naturalization/Registration as British Citizen 

£500 plus VAT (20%)

Application for British Passport       

£300 plus VAT (20%)

Chief Immigration Bail/Temporary Admission  

£1000 no VAT applicable

Representation to Home Office regarding immigration Bail

£600 no VAT applicable

Immigration Judge Bail (One court attendance)

 £1600 no VAT applicable

Resubmitting an application  

£700 no VAT applicable

TOC/NTL

£400 plus VAT (20%)

Sponsorship Declaration

£350 plus VAT (20%)

Disbursements – VAT where payable is currently at 20%

Likely disbursements may include:

Note: Disbursements are costs related to your matter that are payable to third parties, such as visa fees.

• Interpreter’s fees at £75.00 to £100.00 per hour. VAT where payable is currently at 20%. These kind of applications may normally require between 4-5 hours with an interpreter, depending on the complexity of your case.
• Home office application fees which vary depending on the type of application. Information about the Home Office fees are available on their website
• Independent expert reports for example medical experts. These are not required in many cases: we will let you know as soon as possible if we consider an expert report is necessary.
• If there is an interview and we do attend with you, there will be additional disbursements in respect of our mileage/travel expenses.  

What services does this fee include:

The following steps are included:

• Discussing your circumstances in detail and confirming whether this is the most appropriate application for you to make and what other options may be available to you;
• Giving you advice about the requirements of the Immigration Rules and whether you meet the criteria.
• If you do not fulfil certain criteria, whether this can be overcome and how, which on average takes;
• Considering the supporting evidence you have provided;
• Where necessary, helping you obtain further evidence (such as medical records and bank statements), including taking statements of any witnesses;
• Preparing your application and submitting it on your behalf;
• Attendance at a Home Office interview: if the Home Office ask you to attend an interview, we will give you clear advice (and discuss the possibility of us attending with you) at the appropriate time.
• Giving you advice about the outcome of the application and any further steps you need to take
• Advising on key developing areas, if applicable to the client’s case (BREXIT outcomes, UKCVAS centres, EU settlement schemes etc) 
• Closely liaising with clients requesting further information/documents to support the applications and providing constant updates on every actions
• Preparing you to attend appointments at new UKVCAS centres across the UK to lodge documents and enrol biometric information
• Corresponding with the applicants/third parties outside the UK to assist the applications.

Potential additional costs may be charged for:

•  Where the Home Office refuse your application, advice and assistance in relation to any appeal.

The experience of the people who may carry out the work for you:

You will be represented by our Immigration specialist, Mrs Abigail Alabi, who qualified as Solicitor in 2009.

Our Directors are responsible for the supervision of all legal work conducted on your behalf.

With all the areas of work we do, we will do our best to give you a clear idea of what the work will cost you.  However, where we are only able to provide a broad estimate of fees, or we cannot estimate what the final costs are likely to be, the work on your matter will be carried out at our various hourly rates for staff.  The basic hourly rates are set out below. These can increase, based on a number of factors, but we will tell you the relevant hourly rate at the start of the matter

Senior Litigation Executives and Litigation    £200

Executive        

Trainee solicitors, Paralegals, Junior               £150

Executives and Fee earners of

equivalent experience

The typical timescales and key stages

We will normally be able to submit this type of application within a week of you providing us with all of the relevant information, but we will let you know at the earliest opportunity if it is likely to take longer than this.

We cannot guarantee how long the Home Office will take to process your application once it is submitted but you can read the current processing times here: https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration

Please note the anticipated number of hours and fees are an estimate based on the facts above. All applications are likely to vary and of course, we can give you a more accurate estimate once we have more information about your specific case.

Legal Fees and Disbursements:

Note: Disbursements are costs related to your matter that are payable to third parties, such as barrister’s fees. 

First tier appeal legal fees are fixed and fall into the following stages.

• Permission to Appeal Application First-tier Tribunal Application – starting at £400 plus VAT (20%) at the prevailing rate
• Filing Notice and Grounds of Appeal – starting at £600 plus VAT (20%) at the prevailing rate
• Preparing Bundles and Filing with Tribunals and Respondents – From £1850 plus VAT (20%) at the prevailing rate based on one attendance at the tribunal

The Appeals Tribunal fees charged by the Tribunal are published here:  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-and-appeals-tribunal-fees-t495

All disbursement payments and payments to third parties such as Couriers, Translators and Barristers or Expert Witnesses vary and are NOT included in the legal fees above.

We will always provide you with an alternative price if you wish to compare costs and will always endeavour to find the best possible price for you where we are reasonably able to do so.

Barrister Fees vary according to case types, venues for hearings and preparation time therefore these need to be taken into consideration when you receive your estimate for representation. We will be able to obtain an estimate of the barrister’s fee when you contact us.

Where the fee quoted is a fixed fee, it is on the basis that the matter does not become unnecessarily complicated or protracted in which case we reserve the right to charge a further fee.

The fixed fees include:

• our initial advice and discussing your circumstances in detail and confirming whether this is the most appropriate application for you to make and what other options may be available to you;
• the advice on the documents and information required and consideration of this evidence and documents whilst preparing your case.
• preparation and filing of the work you require and correspondence with the Home Office or Tribunals until the decision on the application or appeal is made.
• considering the supporting evidence you have provided and where necessary, helping you obtain further evidence (such as medical records and bank statements), including taking statements of any witnesses;
• preparing your application and submitting it on your behalf;
• giving you advice about the outcome of the application/appeal.

You will not be charged separately for such items as letters, telephone calls, etc, however we may need to charge you for particular expenses such as international couriers.

Our fees do not include payments required to be made to third parties and we will always endeavour to inform our clients in advance, should such payments be necessary.

To enable us to keep our prices low for all clients, our fixed fee is agreed on the understanding it is payable in full regardless of whether, in the case of an appeal, it proceeds to a full appeal hearing or not.

The experience of people who may carry out the work for you:

You will be represented by our Immigration specialist, Mrs Abigail Alabi, who qualified as Solicitor in 2009.

Our Directors are responsible for the supervision of all legal work conducted on your behalf.

The typical timescales:

Matters usually can take between 2 -12 weeks from receipt of your confirmed instructions to submitting the appeal.  The time taken for the appeal to be heard varies according to the Tribunal’s timetable.