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Sasha Lal

Solicitor
UK Inbound Immigration

Sasha is a solicitor in the UK Inbound Immigration team. She initially joined Gherson in 2019 as an Immigration Consultant and completed her Training Contract with the firm in July 2021.Sasha has over nine years of experience specialising in all aspects of UK immigration and nationality law. She works extensively with businesses and individuals, assisting them with sponsor licence matters and work visas, including the Skilled Worker visa. Sasha also handles complex and critical issues for business clients such as prevention of illegal working and compliance matters, whilst for individuals, she specialises in complex and discretionary applications relating to Appendix FM, Registration/Naturalisation and the EU Settlement Scheme.

Sasha works very closely with those operating in creative industries, supporting film and TV producers with cast and crew mobility, arranging business visits for C-suite executives as well as obtaining Global Talent visas for individuals.

She provides legal assistance to businesses, senior professionals, celebrities, international families, family offices, HNW and UHNW individuals.

Sasha has been mentioned in Legal 500 as a reliable, thorough and responsive professional.

Languages spoken: English
Notable Experience (prior to joining Gherson)
  • Securing a Skilled Worker visa for an individual who was a majority shareholder of a company and whose leave as a Dependent had expired. The application was made in-country.
  • Assessing whether creative professionals would be permitted to enter the UK on a Visit visa or require a UK Work visa within a limited timeframe.
  • Filing an out-of-time application under the EU Settlement Scheme with little documentary evidence.
  • Submitting a Creative Worker visa application for an individual who had overstayed in the UK and worked whilst on a Visit visa.
  • Successfully obtaining a Business Visit visa for a VIP who had criminal convictions.
  • Assisting an UHNW client with varying an ILR application to LTR on the Investor route due to the individual not meeting the investment criteria Submitting an urgent application to switch the client to the Global Talent route and successfully obtaining ILR.
  • Securing a Visit visa for a client who had previously faced refusals.
  • Assisting a client with obtaining ILR despite exceptional absences.
  • Admissions & Memberships
  • Immigration Law Practitioners Association (ILPA)
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