Kathryn Bradbury

Payne Hicks Beach

Kathryn is a partner at Payne Hicks Beach. She has been working in the immigration field exclusively since 2001. She practices in the broad spectrum of UK immigration, EU free movement and UK nationality law.

She advises high net worth individuals, often working alongside family offices, and wealth management organisations in applications under the Tier 1 (Investor), and Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) categories of the UK immigration rules. Her experience in personal immigration includes applications under the rules relating to partners, and children, including adoption and surrogacy.

Kathryn also acts for clients in a broad range of appeals to the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) and to the Upper Tribunal often challenging the complexity and rigidity of the current UK immigration rules.

Kathryn has contributed to Home Affairs Select Committee conferences. She trains internally and externally on immigration law and she regularly contributes articles on immigration to the press.

Kathryn has been consistently recommended in the Legal 500 since 2011. According to The Legal 500, she 'imparts 'realistic, clear advice', and shows 'amazing attention to detail''.

She is listed in the Spears 500 Wealth Management 2014 'Best Immigration Lawyers' index, in which it was noted that: 'Barrister sources say she 'probably handles more Tier 1 investor visas than any solicitor in this country''.

Practice Area

Immigration

Panel

Contributing Author

Qualified Year

2007

Membership

Immigration Law Practitioners Association

1 Contributions by Kathryn Bradbury

PRACTICE NOTES

Deception by omission or non-disclosure in UK immigration applications and examination on entry: refusals, cancellation, removal, re-entry bans and criminal offences

Practice Note This Practice Note outlines, in table form, the principal potential consequences of deception through omission or non-disclosure of relevant facts, as set out in the suitability grounds for refusal in the Immigration Rules and in statute. It addresses deception by omission or failure to reveal relevant facts in the following contexts: when applying for entry clearance, permission to enter, or permission to stay; and where an individual already has permission but, during examination by an Immigration Officer on entry, does not disclose a material fact (for example, a change of circumstances or purpose). It should be read alongside Practice Note: Duty of disclosure in immigration applications and interviews. Although Part Suitability of the Immigration Rules applies to the majority of routes, there are limited exceptions where it does not apply to certain parts or appendices, whether wholly or in part. The scope of application is detailed in Immigration Rules, Part Suitability, paragraphs SUI 1.1–SUI 1.4. In this Practice Note, the terms ‘leave to enter/remain’ and ‘permission to enter/stay’ are used interchangeably...

Immigration

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