Immigration Paralegal (London, Bristol, Manchester, Leeds, or Newcastle)

Job Introduction

Our Immigration Team supports a range of clients in both the private and public sector, providing advice on immigration issues, including obtaining and maintaining a sponsor licence, sponsorship work visas and prevention of illegal working. Working alongside the employment and pensions teams, the Immigration Team has strong links to the Health, Financial Services and Tech sectors, and benefits from an interesting and varied range of work.

The Immigration Team are on the lookout for talented and highly motivated individuals who are looking to build a career in this challenging and dynamic area of law. We are primarily looking for someone to join us as a paralegal but we will consider applications from legal executives, junior lawyers or senior caseworkers who have experience of business immigration law. Applications may be considered from exceptional candidates without this experience if motivation to build a career in immigration is clearly demonstrated.  

Role Responsibility

Successful candidates will support the Immigration Team on a range of immigration matters including:

• Managing applications for a variety of work based visas, including preparation of forms, collating evidence and filing of applications with UKVI.
• Assisting businesses with queries relating to sponsoring overseas workers and right to work, including drafting responses setting out immigration law principles
• Working with individuals to support them with visa applications to join family members
• Applications for indefinite leave to remain and British Citizenship
• Supporting businesses with advice on prevention of illegal working and right to work checks.
• Supporting clients with sponsorship licence audits and applications
• Assisting with file opening, retainer letters and managing visa payments
• Participation in business development activities including drafting articles on immigration law topics and training for clients

We are open to candidates who can work from either Bristol, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle or London (where the hiring supervisor will be based).

The Ideal Candidate

• A strong academic record
• Experience of business immigration law (not mandatory but preferred)
• A keen interest in continuing a career in immigration law
• A confident and clear communicator both in writing and in person
• A self starter who can work independently and part of a team
• Excellent attention to detail and organisation skills
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and manage a caseload effectively
• Ability to draft documents accurately
• Confidence with a range of IT programmes
• A flexible and self-motivated approach to work.
• A desire to grow their career within DACB.

Due to the volume of applications we receive, we are not able to respond to all applicants. If you have not heard from us within 10 working days, please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

About the Company

We are a leading international legal business with over 2,500 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Singapore, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Miami. We also have associations/alliances with firms in Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Central America, the USA, Australia and Germany.

We are a broad-based commercial firm with a strong heritage in insurance, health and real estate. This is complemented by a fast-growing Business Advisory capability. We represent a wide range of clients, ranging from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for all of the UK’s top-ten insurers, we are market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-12 housebuilders.

We have an impressive legal pedigree, with 142 Chambers UK 2021 practice area and individual lawyer rankings. In Legal 500 UK 2021, the firm received a top tier ranking for 37 of its practice areas, and 58 DACB lawyers were singled out in the ‘Leading Individual' rankings.

Our successes have been recognised by the legal industry and the markets in which we operate. These accolades include two top prizes in the ‘Excellence in Business Development’ and ‘Excellence in Technology & Innovation’ categories of the 2020 Law Society Excellence Awards – the highest accolade for law firms in England & Wales. Our health sector team won the ‘Crisis Management Team of the Year’ award at the 2020 British Legal Awards for its support to the NHS at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and our Cyber & Data Risk team received the ‘Business Development Innovation Award’ at the 2020 Legal Innovation Awards, as well as ‘Cyber Law Firm of the Year’ at the prestigious Insurance Insider Cyber Rankings Awards, for its market-leading suite of digital tools to help our clients prepare for and respond to cyber and data risk crises.

Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. For further details on our work and our culture, please visit www.dacbeachcroft.com.

Application Details

At DAC Beachcroft, we don’t just accept your differences we celebrate them.  From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you like an individual.  Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the whole you to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are.  We welcome direct applications and are happy to talk flexible working.

We also want you to be at your very best.  Please feel free to let us know of any changes we can make at any point in the recruitment process that will help support your application.  If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV.  Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft recruitment team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible.  We do work with recruitment agencies and where we require external support we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us.  Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the recruitment team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable.  Our recruitment team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com

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