In-House Legal
In-House Legal
Expertise
Before joining In-House Legal our Solicitors worked with the world’s leading immigration law firms. This means our Solicitors stem from a small percentile of highly qualified and respected UK immigration experts who have influenced Home Office policies, handled high-networth individuals and managed all aspects of immigration and compliance for notorious global blue chip companies. The same high standard level of service is now provided at In-House Legal but with the added benefit of a more bespoke personal service and affordable fees for our clients.
Transparency
We don’t sugar coat! If the immigration application you are considering is not right for you, we will be upfront and frank in our explanation and if you are willing, guide you down the right path to achieve what is best for you long term. We appreciate there are immigration advisers out there who will abide by your wishes/only protecting your short term interests, pursue expensive but pointless Tribunal appeals and keep you calm by telling you what you want to hear. That’s just not us. We prefer satisfied clients who know they can trust us and its why 90% of our client base come through word-of-mouth recommendations.
In-House services
We provide remote In-House legal services to companies. This is due to our commitment to provide a compliance focused approach to immigration and Sponsor Licences. Our In-House style of support means that we are ‘on-call’ and always available to provide on-hand support to our clients, often, with no fuss and at no extra charge.
Full Assistance
We only provide full assistance support meaning we will hold your hand and guide you through the process, for a reasonable fixed fee from start to finish, offering unlimited zoom calls and consultations along the way. We do not accept instructions for part assistance. We are control freaks and need to ensure the application is done properly from start to finish.
Farida Dar - Managing Director / Solicitor
Farida Dar is an experienced solicitor who has been practicing Immigration Law for over 20 years and is 18 years PQE . She advises on all types of immigration matters and provides professional, strategic legal solutions to both corporate and private individual clients.
Farida is a native English speaker who also speaks Polish.
Farida is a recognised expert in Corporate Immigration matters and the ‘go to’ person for other immigration law firms wanting to gain further specialism in this area.
Her expertise in Sponsor Licence applications enables her to provide a compliance focused approach, providing ‘In-House Legal services’ to businesses who require the extra support and are new to the Sponsor Licence process.
Farida is dedicated to assisting businesses in the Health & Care sector assisting numerous nursing homes/care homes, domiciliary care providers and private hospitals to staff employees from overseas and thereby helping to fill the current work shortage gap in the UK.
Before setting up In-House Legal, Farida worked for the world’s leading immigration law firm advising notorious large multinational companies and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on matters relating to immigration strategy, compliance, preparing businesses for Brexit and the relocation of staff into the UK and Ireland. Her clients represented a variety of industry sectors, including e-commerce, financial services, banking, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, media, gaming, information technology and engineering.
Farida’s initial decision to specialise in immigration resulted from her passion to help people. She started her career with a law firm recognised as the UK’s largest Legal Aid supplier, handling Discretionary Human Rights, Asylum, Detention/Deportation cases and representing clients in their Appeals before the First Tier and Upper Tribunal.
She also assists high-net-worth individuals with business visa applications to multiple jurisdictions across the world (including Schengen Visas) and provides on-hand assistance every step of the way.
Farida previously worked closely with the Home Office contributing to the UK’s new Visitor rules introduced in 2016.
In 2018 she negotiated changes to the immigration policies with The Bahamian Consulate which resulted in a visa waiver for eligible Indian nationals entering The Bahamas.
Farida continues to influence immigration policy decisions and rules following extensive discussions with the Business Helpdesk at the Home Office.
Client feedback and testimonials for Farida can be found on LinkedIn.
Eliza Shesterneva
Eliza Shesterneva is a legal professional with 5+ years of experience. She has a degree from a Singapore university where she also worked for local law firms as a paralegal and conducted legal research for Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). Eliza published legal articles and contributed to the coverage of various events in the industry. She was also one of the awardees for the Notre Dame – IBM Tech Ethics Lab’s grant for drafting a model legislation in the personal data’s field.
She has a background in international private law and immigration law, where she has an experience in corporate immigration, setting up companies and opening bank accounts abroad, as well as dispute resolution, liaising with foreign law firms and experts, and structuring the projects to ensure the success of the cases. Eliza is currently studying law in the UK. She speaks English and Russian, and can manage some Mandarin Chinese.