Specialist advice across two practice areas.
Two distinct areas of practice. UK immigration across the full personal, family and work life cycle. Indian law for non-resident Indians instructing from London on property, succession and authority.
Each service is run as its own discipline, with its own evidence requirements and its own senior point of contact. Every matter is led by a qualified, named adviser from instruction through to filing.
Five service streams, end to end.
Each stream is run as a discrete practice with its own checklists, its own evidence requirements and its own senior point of contact. The pages linked under each entry set out the detail.
Partner, family and dependant routes.
The relationship-based routes into the United Kingdom and the path that follows from them. We act on first applications, extensions, switches between categories, and the careful planning around the financial requirement, the English language requirement and the suitability tests that fall in between.
View all UK immigration servicesSkilled Worker and the routes around it.
Sponsorship-based applications and the parallel routes for senior, specialist and investor-grade applicants. The work begins with whether the route is the right one at all, and runs through to the salary threshold, the SOC code, the maintenance requirement, and the position of the dependants who accompany the principal.
- Skilled Worker
- Health & Care Worker
- High Potential Individual
- Graduate visa
- Youth Mobility Scheme
- Work dependant
Indefinite leave to remain and naturalisation.
The final two stages of the immigration life cycle. We act for clients reaching the qualifying period under the Five-Year and Ten-Year routes, and for settled residents preparing for British citizenship. Particular attention to absences, continuous residence, good character, and the timing window between ILR and a citizenship application.
View all UK immigration servicesStandard, family and specialist visitor matters.
The visitor route looks straightforward and is frequently mishandled. We advise on the standard visitor route, the family-visit position where a spouse or close relative is settled in the United Kingdom, and the more nuanced specialist visitor and marriage visitor sub-routes. Pre-application strategy where the applicant has a prior refusal in their history.
View all UK immigration servicesProperty, succession and instruction from London.
For non-resident Indian clients who hold property, manage succession, or need to instruct on transactions in India without travelling. Power of attorney drafted to the standard required by the relevant state registrar, PAN card applications, property advisory, and the practical groundwork that allows a UK-based client to act in India through a representative.
View all Indian law servicesA service list is not a menu. Each stream is a discipline, with its own evidence base, its own decision-makers, and its own failure points. The job of the firm is to know each of those points before you arrive at them.Whytecroft Ford · Practice statement
The shape of an instruction.
The path from first call to filing follows the same shape on every matter. A short version of it is set out below.
Consultation and scope.
We begin with a paid consultation to understand the matter, identify the route or instrument that fits, and surface the points where the case is most likely to fail. You receive a written scope and a fixed fee proposal before you instruct.
If the matter is one we should not take on, we will say so at this stage.
Preparation and filing.
Once instructed, the matter is built around the failure points identified at scoping. Evidence collection runs in parallel with the drafting, the cover letter is led by a named adviser, and the file is reviewed before it goes out.
You hold the same point of contact throughout, and that adviser stays with the matter through to the decision.
A specialist practice, by choice.
Each service is run as a discrete practice, with its own checklists, its own evidence requirements and its own senior point of contact. Specialism is what produces a careful filing.
Find the service that fits your matter.
A first call is the simplest way to identify the right route or instrument and to understand the realistic timeline and fee position before you commit.