Immigration Appeals | Immigration Refusals 

Westkin Associates Immigration Lawyers is a leading immigration appeal law firm situated in the heart of London with practice teams in all aspects of immigration law.

Our immigration appeal lawyers always provide a fixed fee to be agreed before we start any work. This gives you assurances as to cost.

We employ the finest advocates so you can be sure that we will be determined to win appeals, with immigration lawyers you can be proud of.

We take 100% of appeal cases. Guaranteed. Please call us to arrange a free assessment of your refusal letter. We will then be able to tell you:

(a) What the next best option is;
(b) Your chances of success on appeal;
(c)  The overall costs that our appeal lawyers will charge;
(d)  How long it will all take.
(e) What documents you might need.

We dont simply think we are the best, we actively train other immigration lawyers in how to win appeals.

Below are videos highlighting Westkin Associates work flow in handling Immigration Appeals, used to train other Immigration Lawyers and Solicitors.

Immigration Appeals Part 1

Westkin Associates Immigration Appeal Lawyers Part 1

Part 2

Westkin Associates Immigration Appeal Lawyers Part 2

Our leading Immigration Lawyers are experienced in winning immigration appeals before the Immigration Courts – known as the First Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum). We have specialist teams who deal with Appeal cases. Our head of department, Amir Zaidi, was an Immigration Barrister for 10 years and has the experience of over a thousand immigration cases.

We undertake all appeals whether the refusal is by the UKBA in the UK or by an Entry Clearance Post abroad.

I have received an Immigration Refusal. What do I do next?

The UKBA will have provided a reasons for refusal letter.

Our Immigration Appeal Lawyers offer a free appraisal service. After speaking to us on the telephone, we will invite you to send us a scanned copy of the refusal letter. We can then assess, free of charge, the decision and give you a formal assessment in the following ways:

Our Immigration Appeal Lawyers will give you a firm quote for the work. We do not adopt a fixed pricing strategy. We give an individual price for the amount of work we will actually do on your case. We will not overcharge or fit your appeal into a cheap pricing strategy.

We will give you an idea of how long the appeal will take to resolve at the First Tier Tribunal – Immigration and Asylum.

Where an appeal is from an application made outside the UK, known as a visa appeal, the hearing date at a court can take a long time to be listed within the UK, often around 16 weeks.

Our Immigration Appeal Lawyers will give you detailed information about your prospects of success at an Immigration Appeal, ie how likely it is you will be successful;

Immigration Appeal Soon?

Many of our Immigration appeal clients often come to us before their court date as they are not happy with their current immigration solicitor. Other clients had no solicitor at all, but would now like to have an immigration lawyer come with you to court, this can also be arranged.

Please look over the free guidance videos below to see how we work and contact us if appropriate.

How our Immigration Lawyers win Immigration appeals.

Our Immigration Lawyers ensure that every point in the refusal letter is answered in the Immigration Appeal,  through the careful collection of evidence, analysis of case law and collection of witnesses.

The starting point is always the refusal decision. It is correct to note that the visa appeal should be brought on grounds that are contained in the refusal letter only. Appellants do not need to re-argue all the points made in the application, only the points in the refusal decision.

Given how important it is to lodge the appeal forms in time, our immigration lawyers often lodge your appeal before taking any professional fees.

Once the appeal is lodged, an appeal date will be set. Once we obtain a court date, we draft a clear action plan together with our clients. This gives us a clear plan by which specific dates are set to obtain the correct evidence and prepare a statement together. It is important that nothing is missed so we provide our Immigration appeal clients a clear list of documents to obtain.

We always seek to comply with directions which are sent by the First Tier Tribunal – Asylum and Immigration. The court will usually ask that all documents are sent to them 5 days before the hearing.   We always aim towards this deadline to assist clear planning.

Once all our bundles are lodged at the First Tier Tribunal – Asylum and Immigration we use the remaining 5 days to invite our clients to a further conference to enable them to become comfortable with court procedure. We explain what time to attend at court, what to expect before you enter the court room, what to call the Immigration Judge and even when to stand and sit. These things may not sound important, but we find our clients are much more comfortable giving evidence as witnesses if they know what to expect.

On the day of hearing, we ensure our clients are never outgunned by hiring only the best specialist immigration barristers  or using our own specialist advocates – whichever is better for your case, to represent at our client’s immigration appeals.

They will be fully briefed, with the full involvement in the preparation of the case.

Immigration Appeal Services

Our Immigration Appeal Lawyers provide the following services to our Immigration appeal clients.

1. Fully taking the case over, including informing the Immigration Court (called the Immigration and Asylum Chamber – First and Upper Tiers) and Home Office that we are representing you; and

2. full preparation of the witness statements; and

3. full preparation and advice on all documents needed; and

4. fully briefing, specialist and experienced advocates;

5. advocates appearance at court (advocacy and representation)

6. advocates’ advice in preparation of the appeal; and

7. advocates’ skeleton argument; and

8. our preparation of indexed and paginated bundles; including complying with all court directions; and

9. getting you and your witnesses (if any) ready for hearing; and

10. All other work to win the case; and

11. if the appeal is successful meeting all the administrative deadlines so the visa originally applied for is placed in your passport as soon as possible; and

12. If unsuccessful advising you on next steps, further appeals, merits and costs.

Immigration Appeal Fees

There are no court fees for lodging an appeal or the hearing itself.

Our legal professional fees are set on an hourly rate. We allow for payments in instalments.

All fees are complete and transparent and are total costs. These include advocacy fees with no hidden charges.

All our fees are held in a client account and remain your property until the work is completed. That means that if any time you request a refund you can have your money back minus costs of work completed.

if you are interested in our Immigration Appeal service, please call our experienced immigration appeal lawyers for a no obligation chat.

info@westkin.com

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