Asif Rizwy

Mr. Asif Mohsin Rizwy (Senior Caseworker)

Asif specialises in UK immigration law and has over nine years of working experience. Asif has been Accredited with the Law Society as a Senior Immigration Caseworker at Level 2, for Asylum and Immigration matters, since 2016. Asif provides end-to-end support for individuals helping them to navigate the UK immigration system successfully and swiftly.

Introduction

Asif excels in the following:

For individuals and families

• Visitor visas (entry clearance applications & challenging refusal decisions)
• Spouse/Partner visas (entry clearance applications, extensions, indefinite leave to remain & switching from a different immigration category
• Home Office Marriage Representation
• Parents of British child visa applications (under 5 years & 10 years routes)
• Long Residence Applications (under 10 years & 20 years routes, further leave to remain applications & indefinite leave to remain applications)
• Indefinite Leave to Remain applications (including applications for victims of domestic violence)
• Stateless person (child applications)
• Skilled Worker Visas (extensions, indefinite leave to remain & naturalisation applications as British Citizens)
• Hong Kong BNO Applications (entry clearance applications & challenging refusal decisions)
• Indefinite leave to remain on the bereaved partner route
• Indefinite leave to remain for children under the age of 18 years where
  • Both parents are present and settled in the UK;
  • One parent is present and settled in the UK, but the other one is deceased;
  • One parent is present and settled in the UK, and the other one is being admitted for settlement at the same time;
  • One parent is present and settled in the UK or is being admitted for settlement and has sole responsibility for and custody over the child; or
  • One parent or relative is present or settled here, and “there are serious and compelling family or other considerations which make exclusion of the child undesirable and suitable arrangements have been made for the child’s care.”

British Citizenship Applications

• Naturalisation as a British Citizen
• Registration as a British Citizen
• Reconsideration of Naturalisation/ Nationality applications
• British passport applications (for adults and children

Challenging Immigration decisions

• Pre-Action-Protocol letters (challenging refusal decisions of immigration applications & applications pending for decisions beyond the standard processing time)
• Administrative Review (AR)
• Reconsideration of Naturalisation applications
• Judicial Review challenging the legally incorrect decisions of the Home office

Applications under the EU Settlement Scheme

• Pre-Settlement Status applications
• Settled Status applications
• Applications under the retained rights of residence

Other immigration Applications

• No Time Limit applications (including applications under Windrush Scheme)
• Subject Access Requests to the Home Office, UKVI
• Returning Residence entry clearance applications
• BRP Replacement applications
• Fee Waiver applications
• Stateless person (child applications)
• UK ENIC (UK National Information Centre for global qualifications and skills)applications for UKVI purposes