Mrs H* came to Danielle Cohen at the end of five years as a work permit holder. Prior to her work permit, she had been a student and felt exasperated by the application process. She had hoped that she was going to be making her final application to the Home Office after completing five years as a work permit holder as she was eligible for indefinite leave to remain. ...

Dr K* a non EU national came to Danielle Cohen Immigration Solicitors having been refused leave to remain in the UK....

Dave* was a non-European national. In his thirties he married and had a child but he and his wife drifted apart romantically and settled into a routine companionship which could have lasted into their retirement had Dave not discovered in his late fifties that he would be happier with a male partner.  He and his wife divorced amicably and on a trip to the U.K. he wandered into a gay friendly pub and whilst watching sport there struck up a conversation with Jerry, a European national also in his sixties.  That day’s debate on the finer points of rugby versus American football was the starting point of a life changing relationship for both men.  They spent more and more time together, and began to plan for a Civil Partnership ceremony, with the reception to be held, fittingly, at the pub where they had first met....

Four year old Katerina* was visiting her aunt in the UK with her mother, when she suddenly collapsed and was rushed to hospital.  The rest of her family in Eastern Europe waited anxiously for news and when it came it was not good.  She was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, the prognosis for which was poor unless she could receive intensive specialist treatment of a type unavailable in her home country.  This young child underwent both surgery and acutely necessary courses of chemotherapy and radiotherapy to prevent the tumour recurrence. At the time her mother came to Danielle Cohen Immigration Solicitors Katerina was a very sick, very vulnerable little girl struggling with nausea and vomiting as a consequence of her treatment.  Her mother, who was pregnant with her second child, was doing her best to be strong and supportive for her beloved child but her pain and anxiety were obvious and only increased by the fact of her separation from the rest of her family and the bleak prospects for her daughter’s future if she had to return to her homeland where the potentially life-saving treatment would not be available....

Welcome to Danielle Cohen Immigration Solicitors’ blog.  We are a firm of specialist lawyers dealing with all areas of immigration law covering applications to the Home Office and British embassies abroad and applications under the new Points Based System (previously dealt with under the work permits and highly skilled migrant programme).  We also advise people who are in the country illegally and who face detention, administrative removal or deportation, applications for leave to remain on medical grounds and applications that are made outside of the Immigration Rules.  In the area of personal immigration matters we handle marriage applications, civil partnership applications, unmarried and same sex partner applications, applications for family members and dependants and visitor applications as well as applications for British nationality, asylum applications and Human Rights based applications...