Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law

17/09/2026

📣Free Webinar: October Right to Work Changes: Who's Liable, How To Protect Your Business

From 1 October 2026, UK right to work checks and liability for illegal working expand far beyond traditional employment — to gig workers, casual staff, individual subcontractors, online platforms and, through a new "extended liability" regime, to illegal working anywhere in your subcontracting chain. Penalties run to £60,000 per worker, with the risk of premises closure powers and sponsor licence revocation.

Join Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law's James Lamont and Alex Miradi for a free 40-minute webinar and Q&A:

🔎The changes (10 mins) — the expanded definition of "employment" and the new extended liability regime

🔎What organisations can do (10 mins) — the prescribed requirements for a statutory excuse and practical steps to protect yourself

🔎Your questions (15–20 mins) — open Q&A: bring your own arrangements and ways in people work for you

This would be useful for and teams, in-house , and professionals and operations leaders — especially in sectors such as , & , , and , , , and . These massive changes may affect any organisation with labour supply chains, or casual workers. No prior legal knowledge needed. Please feel free to share this registration link with friends, colleagues, anybody who migh tbe grappling with this major overhaul of right to work liability.

The session will be recorded. Registrants receive the slides and a written summary afterwards.

23/07/2026

🥇Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law is ranked in the top tier of Immigration advisers for HNWI by Chambers and Partners High Net Worth Guide 2026. The guide says the team are "exceptionally responsive, with significant depth, and provide an extremely high-touch professional service experience to their clients."

🥇Vanessa Ganguinsa Ganguin is "exceptional," "a go-to UK immigration lawyer" according to and she is again ranked in Band One.

🙏Thank you kindly to our clients and referrers who gave us such glowing and continue to bring us such interesting work.

👏 Congratulations too to all our friends and legal colleagues who feature in the latest 🥳

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24/04/2026

🌼 It’s Spring: time for Snowdrops, Bluebells, bare legs and a swathe of UK immigration changes for personnel teams to grapple with, writes Vanessa Ganguin ...

Latest UK immigration and sponsorship changes companies need to know about

15/04/2026

👀 Vanessa Ganguin's latest article in HR magazine warns of a major change for employers with sponsor licences. They must check that any worker they engage – whether sponsored or not – has the right to work. This now includes all those they “directly engage” as well as employees.

This is a significant development and we have written asking for more clarity. In the meantime, Vanessa warns: "Most will not have been carrying out right to work checks on self-employed workers and will be unaware of their status as it has not been a requirement.

"The wording of the new sponsorship guidance suggests sponsors should now check the status of all self-employed, zero-hour and other directly engaged contractors to protect against the loss of their licence to sponsor workers.

"Sponsors may want to take legal advice on how best to protect themselves in the light of this new guidance."

You can read the full article which covers this and other changes for sponsoring employers here:

Sponsors should now check the status of all self-employed, zero-hour and other directly engaged contractors to protect against the loss of their licence to sponsor workers.

08/04/2026

👀 All the Spring 2026 UK immigration, visa application and nationality fees increases. 👇

🌐 If the UK didn’t already have the most expensive immigration system in the world, it may well do after 8 April 2026.

🇬🇧 Key UK immigration costs from 8 April 2026:

Visitor visa (up to 6 months): £135 (up from £127)
Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA): £20 (up from £16)
Student visa: £558 (up from £524)
Skilled Worker visa (up to 3 years): £943 (up from £885)
Spouses, partners, children applying for family visas: £2,064 (up from £1,938)
Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement): £3,226 (up from £3,029)
Naturalisation (Citizenship): £1,709 (up from £1,605)

🙏 The one bit of good-ish news is that after much campaigning, child citizenship registration fees fall – but only by around a fifth from £1,214 to £1,000.

🥶 Though sponsor licence application fees increase, sponsors escape higher fees as certificates of sponsorship are frozen...

The Home Office has confirmed new immigration, nationality and passport fee increases from 8 April 2026