Lisa Parsons
Senior Associate and Head of Immigration Team
Contact details
020 7405 2000
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Lisa is Head of the Immigration Team and a Senior Associate in the firm.
Main areas of practice
Lisa has over 20 years’ experience as an immigration specialist with a particular focus on business immigration.
Lisa has extensive experience in many different types of immigration applications, both for businesses and individuals. She advises in relation to skilled worker visas, Global Business Mobility visas, business and general visitor visas as well as those for family settlement, UK Ancestry and British nationality applications. She also advises Higher Education Institutions who sponsor international students.
Significant experience
She has a significant business immigration practice and regularly advises clients on sponsor licences for UK businesses, compliance and right to work issues, as well as substantive applications for sponsored migrants and their dependents. She has also provided strategic advice to corporate clients in respect of global mobility policies.
She provides training sessions for corporate clients on maintaining their sponsor licence, the duties and responsibilities of Authorising Officers and using the Home Office sponsorship management system, as well as undertaking compliance audits for clients.
Clients
Lisa advises a range of companies and businesses in many different sectors. She also advises high net worth individuals, as well as Higher Education Institutions.
Expertise & Services
Contact details
020 7405 2000
Email Lisa
Memberships
- Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association
Insights by Lisa
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The Government laid its latest Statement of Changes to the Immigration Rules before Parliament on 1 July 2025. It gives effect to many of the proposed skilled worker reforms outlined...
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The UK immigration system is in transition from physical documents to prove immigration status (such as biometric residence cards and permits) to a digitised immigration system. On 1 November 2024, the...
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