Paul McCarthy, Senior Associate
Paul is experienced in both personal and corporate immigration law for individuals and businesses in all types of application to the Immigration authorities.
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Paul has over 9 years of experience working in both personal and corporate immigration law for individuals and businesses in all types of application to the Immigration authorities.
He is a specialist in complex immigration casework and has acted for numerous FTSE 100 companies and high net worth individuals in their immigration matters. Paul has also successfully represented clients in Administrative Review applications, at both the First and Upper Tier Tribunals (Immigration and Asylum Chamber), in the Administrative Court by way of Judicial Review and injunction proceedings and in the Court of Appeal (Civil Division). He has written articles and presented webinars on a number of immigration related topics and provided bespoke training to clients on all manner of corporate and personal immigration. Paul is recognised as a ‘Rising Star’ in The Legal 500.
Paul is admitted to practise in England and Wales.
Experience
- Regularly undertakes employee ‘Brexit surgeries’ advising EU migrants in the UK on their rights following the EU referendum
- Advises and assists clients applying for Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent) visas
- Experience of successfully challenging refusals under the Administrative Review regime.
- Presented webinars on the right to rent scheme and changes to Tier 1 of the Points Based System
- Routinely advises clients on family immigration matters and how to naturalise as a British Citizen
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Emma Humphreys
Emma Humphreys and Paul McCarthy write for Property Week on the new landlord digital ID checks
Emma Humphreys and Paul McCarthy write for Property Week on new landlord digital ID checks
Paul McCarthy
Homes for Ukraine – A new visa from the UK Housing Department
Rose Carey
UK scraps the Investor visa
Paul McCarthy
New Employer and Landlord Digital ID Checks – A Good IDea?
Rose Carey
Changes to Right to Work Checks from 1 July 2021
EEA citizens and their family members are required to evidence immigration status in the UK, in the same way as other foreign nationals.
Paul McCarthy
Changes to Right to Rent Checks from 1 July 2021
Following the UK’s departure from the EU, the right to rent checks grace period of six months will end on 30 June.
Paul McCarthy
Post-Brexit business visitors and working in France, Germany, Spain and the UK
Watch the final session in a series of webinars on post-Brexit mobility.
Kelvin Tanner
Sponsor Licence Compliance: Key considerations
Watch our fourth in a series of webinars on post-Brexit mobility.
Paul McCarthy
Brexit & Horses: more hurdles than the Grand National?
Paul McCarthy
Travelling to the UK anytime soon? Don’t forget your (negative) COVID-19 test
Kelvin Tanner
The EU-UK Trade & Cooperation Agreement is not a meaningful replacement of free movement
The TCA is vastly limited compared to free movement and simply extends the business visitor category.
Rose Carey
The UK's New Post-Brexit Immigration System: New Immigration Rules for Skilled Workers
Reviewing the post-Brexit immigration changes for those seeking to come to the UK for work.
Rose Carey
New Immigration System Post-Brexit
What can we expect from the new immigration system after 1 January 2021?
Paul McCarthy
EU national going to UK university in September 2021? You could save £50,000...
Paul McCarthy
Self-employed with a UK work visa during COVID-19 lockdown
How will COVID-19 affect self-employed UK work visa holders?
Rose Carey
Representative of an Overseas Business
Applicants can apply to enter the UK as a Representative of an Overseas Business (also known as a Sole Representative visa)
Rose Carey
UK to end freedom of movement
Government proposal to end free movement for EU citizens on 31 October 2019 in the event of a No-Deal Brexit.
Paul McCarthy
Horses for EU courses in no deal Brexit
If you move horses around the EU for racing, breeding or competition then a no deal Brexit will affect you.
Paul McCarthy
The MAC publishes final report on a post-Brexit immigration system
The MAC makes recommendations to the government about what a post -Brexit UK migration system should look like.