Lawyery

29/07/2026

New website launch:

Pinoy solicitors serving the Filipino community across the UK, advising in English, Tagalog and Illocano: healthcare worker visas, family immigration, NMC cases and Philippine divorce.

04/06/2026

Lawyery are a Boutique Immigration and Family Law practice based in Holborn, London. Our Team of Chris Dias, Crystal Dias, Darcey Dias, Marianne Layson, Mark Layson, Hannah Layson, Barbie Nicandro, Hollie Pakora, and Christopher Quebral will be walking. Micah Lee and Irene Kamya will be supporting the Team but not walking.

Our page for sponsoring the Team is here: https://londonlegalsupporttrust.enthuse.com/pf/lawyery-limited-2026

Thank you for supporting our team in fundraising for the 2026 London Legal Walk. We will be taking on 10km on Tuesday 9 June to help those in need gain access to life-changing free legal advice.

We will be walking with the Lady Chief Justice and thousands of lawyers to raise funds for the London Legal Support Trust (LLST). Last year, the 21st London Legal Walk raised over £1,000,000, which enabled thousands of people to access justice.

26/03/2026

Want to find out more about our Founder and senior Solicitor, Crystal Dias?

Crystal Dias specialises in women's and migrant's rights, with a focus on Filipino community work, NMC defence, and professional disciplinary matters.

21/11/2025

On 20 November 2025, the Home Secretary unveiled the Command Paper, A Fairer Pathway to Settlement: A statement and accompanying consultation on earned settlement (CP 1448), outlining a massive overhaul of how migrants achieve Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR), or "settlement". The reforms are considered the "biggest shake-up of the legal migration system in nearly half a century".

Chris Dias, solicitor at Lawyery has written a detailed briefing on this on our blog:

The UK’s legal migration landscape is undergoing its most profound transformation in decades. On 20 November 2025, the Home Secretary unveiled the Command Paper, A Fairer Pathway to Settlement: A statement and accompanying consultation on earned settlement (CP 1448), outlining a massive overhaul o...

23/09/2025

We are proud to announce that our very own co-founder Crystal Dias Crystal Dias been nominated for Solicitor of the Year Award by at the prestigious Inspirational Women in Law Awards 2025 by First 100 Years/ Next 100 Years

Crystal Dias | Lawyery | UK filipino immigration lawyer | UK Divorce lawyer | tagalog speaker | pinoy law | award winner | online appointment

11/08/2025

A new venture launched by Lawyery founding solicitor Christopher Dias, ukinnovator.online which is aimed at helping Innovator Founder potential applicants test out their business concept. It is not aimed at giving legal advice or immigration advice, but is aimed at the core business concepts of innovation, scalability and viability.

https://www.ukinnovator.online/

01/07/2025

Are you ready for 22 July 2025?

Because changes are coming!

New rules to be laid in Parliament see skills and salary thresholds rise, overseas recruitment for care workers end, and more than 100 occupations no longer granted access to the immigration system.

These changes, the first to be rolled out from the Immigration White Paper, represent a fundamental shift in the UK’s approach to immigration and restore order to the points-based system, focusing on higher skills, lower numbers and tighter controls. They are an important step in ending the UK’s reliance on overseas, lower skilled recruitment.

The introduction of an interim, time-limited and conditional temporary shortage list will make sure the immigration system works better for the UK, with international recruitment only providing support where occupations are key to the industrial strategy or building crucial infrastructure.

Each sector must have a workforce strategy in place to train UK workers, or it will lose access to the immigration system.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said:

"We are delivering a complete reset of our immigration system to restore proper control and order, after the previous government allowed net migration to quadruple in four years. These new rules mean stronger controls to bring migration down, to restore order to the immigration system and to ensure we focus on investing in skills and training here in the UK.

As part of the Plan for Change, we can build an immigration system that serves the needs of the British economy and people – one that values skills, tackles exploitation, and ensures those who come to the UK make a genuine contribution.:

The package of measures includes:
- raising the skills threshold for Skilled Worker visas, removing 111 eligible occupations
- closing the social care worker visa route to overseas recruitment in response to widespread abuse and exploitation
- only allowing time-limited access below degree level through a targeted immigration salary list and temporary shortage list, for critical roles only, with strict requirements for sectors to grow domestic skills
- commissioning the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to conduct a review of the temporary shortage list including occupations, salaries and benefits

Workers in occupations on the temporary shortage list will no longer be able to bring dependants and will not be permitted salary and visa fee discounts. The occupations included on the List are time-limited until the end of 2026 and will only remain beyond that date if the independent Migration Advisory Committee recommend it.

If any of these issues effect you, reach out to the Lawyery Team!