Kelly Whiter
Kelly is a partner in the Immigration department at Fladgate.
She has almost 20 years of experience in the field of immigration. She specialises in advising businesses, high net worth and ultra-high net worth individuals and their family members on all aspects of immigration covering workers and sponsor licences, student visas, investors, entrepreneurs, sole representatives, family applications, British citizenship applications and applications under EU law, including discretionary applications outside the Immigration Rules. She also advises clients on economic citizenship by investment options.
Kelly is named in The Chambers HNW Guide 2020, The Legal 500 2020, Who’s Who Legal 2020 and the Citywealth Leaders List 2020 as a leading lawyer in the field of immigration.
Kelly is an active member of the Immigration Law Practitioners Association (ILPA).
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2002
Membership
- Immigration Law Practitioners Association
- The Law Society
Qualifications
- Admission to the Roll of Solicitors (2002)
- Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test (2002)
- Post Graduate Diploma (Bar Vocational Course) (1999)
- LLB Hons (1998)
Education
- College of Law (2002)
- University of Northumbria at Newcastle (1998-1999)
- De Montfort University (1995-1998)
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PRACTICE NOTES
Representative of an Overseas Business route (UK): eligibility, validity, genuineness, dependants and settlement; sole representative extensions only post-11 April 2022; media representatives still open
Representative of an Overseas Business
Previously, the Representative of an Overseas Business route offered permission to enter and remain in the UK for staff of non-UK companies via two pathways:
a senior member of staff from a foreign company with no UK footprint, sent to the UK to set up the organisation’s inaugural branch or subsidiary (‘sole representative’); or
media personnel of overseas newspapers, news agencies or broadcasting organisations deployed by their non-UK employer on a long-term assignment in the UK (‘media representatives’)
Under the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules HC 1118, the ‘sole representative’ provisions ceased to accept new applicants from 11 April 2022.
The sole representative rules within the Representative of an Overseas Business category now apply solely to individuals seeking to extend leave or obtain settlement via this route.
From the same date, the Global Business Mobility—UK Expansion Worker route was launched to accommodate candidates who would formerly have come to the UK as sole representatives.
For more information, refer to Practice Note: Sponsoring a UK Expansion Worker...
Immigration
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