Younes Ech-Chadli

Younes is a Principal Associate advising on all aspects of private and business UK immigration, citizenship and immigration related public law matters.  

He has been practicing immigration law since 2012 and qualified as a solicitor in 2015.

Younes advises corporate and individual clients on all aspects of private and business UK immigration, citizenship and immigration related public law matters including:

For businesses:

• Sponsor Licences
• Work Visas including Skilled Worker and Health and Care visas
• Right to work
• Training and webinars

For individuals:

• Family settlement applications including fiancé, spouse/civil partner and child visas
• Ancestry Visas
• Youth Mobility Scheme visas
• Visitor Visas
• Appeals
• Judicial Reviews
• British Citizenship

Business immigration:

Younes is entrusted to advise a wide range of corporate clients, from various sectors such as:
•    Hospitality
•    Private Healthcare
•    Financial institutions
•    Embassies
•    Multi Academy Trusts
•    Charities
•    Churches
•    Manufacturing
•    Care homes
•    Energy
•    Travel

He represents clients with their Sponsor Licences and regularly advises on all aspects of compliance, risk management and strategy. His work incorporates advice and representation with work visas such as Skilled Worker, Health and Care and Global Business Mobility visas as well as on right to work and general HR queries. He provides training and runs webinars for the benefit of employers and HR professionals.

 

Notable Cases

- Navigating right to work issues for EU nationals working for a high profile Brexiter

- Obtaining a Skilled Worker visa and renewing an existing Skilled Worker visa for a Tech company with Sponsor Licence issues

- Obtaining a Sponsor Licence and a Skilled Worker visa within one month on an urgent basis

- Advising a prestigious private hospital on their Sponsor Licence and hiring individuals on Skilled Workers and Health and Care visas

- Obtaining Sponsor Licences for a number of medium and large Multi Academy Trusts

- Acting for a large hospitality client in a significant number of Skilled Worker visas and ongoing right to work matters

- Switching an individual from a Skilled Worker visa to a Minister of Religion visa on behalf of a Church

- Hundreds of successful fiancée, spouse and civil partner visas for clients from all over the world with varying financial circumstances

- Entry clearance and then immediate settlement for an Australian international sportsperson who had a gap in their immigration history due to the Covid-19 pandemic and poor legal advice from a previous advisor

- Instructed by a local authority to represent an individual whose partner was killed to obtain a visa on the basis of having British children 

- Successfully obtaining a Visitor Visa for a Yemeni national despite being a homemaker, having no income of their own and having been refused Visitor Visas in the past

- A Visitor Visa for a Nigerian businessman whose initial application was refused as they did not believe the source of his funds

- British citizenship for a US head of an international organisation who previously held a Skilled Worker visa despite having significant absences over the statutory maximum.

- Successful Judicial review for a dependant Indian spouse and child of a Skilled Worker (previously Tier 2) where they were accused of deception

- Successful Judicial review for a Chinese businesswoman whose business Visitor Visa was initially refused as they and their business were accused of deception

Private immigration 

Younes trained as a human rights lawyer and is retained by a number of clients and organisations to advise on visas for individuals. Organisations such as local authorities and corporate clients have trusted Younes to advise on visas matters for individuals, including some high-profile matters. He has represented a wide range of clients in visa applications, including Partner Visas, visas for children and human rights applications. His attention to detail and methodological approach has led to successful outcomes for individuals with complex cases.

 

 

- Navigating right to work issues for EU nationals working for a high profile Brexiter
- Obtaining a Skilled Worker visa and renewing an existing Skilled Worker visa for a Tech company with Sponsor Licence issues
- Obtaining a Sponsor Licence and a Skilled Worker visa within one month on an urgent basis
- Advising a prestigious private hospital on their sponsor licence and hiring individuals on Skilled Workers and Health and Care visas
- Obtaining sponsor licences for a number of medium and large Multi Academy Trusts
- acting for a large hospitality client in a significant number of Skilled Worker visas and ongoing right to work matters
- switching an individual from a Skilled Worker visa to a Minister of Religion visa on behalf of Church
- Hundreds of successful fiancée, spouse and civil partner visas for clients from all over the world with varying financial circumstances
- Entry clearance and then immediate settlement for an Australian international sportsperson who had a gap in their immigration history due to the Covid-19 pandemic and poor legal advice from a previous advisor
- instructed by a local authority to represent an individual whose partner was killed to obtain a visa on the basis of having British children 
- successfully obtaining a visitor visa for a Yemeni national despite being a homemaker, having no income of their own and having been refused visitor visas in the past
- A visitor visa for a Nigerian businessman whose initial application was refused as they did not believe the source of his funds
- British citizenship for a US head of an international organisation who previously held a Skilled Worker visa despite having significant absences over the statutory maximum.
- successful Judicial review for a dependant Indian spouse and child of a Skilled Worker (previously Tier 2) where they were accused of deception
- successful Judicial review for a Chinese businesswoman whose business visitor visa was initially refused as they and their business were accused of deception

Private immigration 
Younes trained as a human rights lawyer and is retained by a number of clients and organisations to advise on visas for individuals.  Organisations such as local authorities and corporate clients have trusted Younes to advise on visas matters for individuals, including some high-profile matters.  He has represented a wide range of clients in visa applications, including partner visas, visas for children and human rights applications.  His attention to detail and methodological approach has led to successful outcomes for individuals with complex cases.