How we get you there
Immigration is won on preparation. Here's how a Waterstone Legal application runs — and why our clients hear good news more often.
Tell us your situation. We map the routes open to you and tell you plainly which one we'd take, what it costs and your realistic chances.
You get a tailored document checklist, and we test every piece against the rules before anything is submitted — most refusals start with weak paperwork, not weak cases.
We prepare and submit with detailed legal representations that answer the Home Office's questions before they're asked.
Approval: we plan your path to settlement. Refusal: we move fast on the strongest challenge — inside the deadline, every time.
Waiting is the hardest part. We track your application, chase where chasing helps, and answer the what-ifs whenever they wake you at night.
Fixed fees for a fixed goal
Most immigration applications are quoted as a single fixed fee, agreed before we start — with Home Office fees and the health surcharge set out separately, so you can budget the whole journey, not just our part of it.
If we don't believe an application will succeed, we'll tell you before you pay for it — that's the whole point of the route check.
Tell us your nationality, your status and what you're aiming for. An immigration solicitor will map your options the same working day.
Check my route → All UK routes · Same-day replyOur published fee ranges
Typical ranges for our legal fees only. Home Office, tribunal, healthcare-surcharge, biometric, interpreter, translation, expert and barrister charges are separate. Where VAT applies it is charged at 20%; whether it applies depends on your residence and immigration status.
Applications
- Further Leave to Remain — partner or parent route £1,500 – £2,500 + VAT
- Entry-clearance application £1,500 – £2,500 + VAT
- Skilled Worker application £1,500 – £2,500 + VAT
- Indefinite Leave to Remain £1,500 – £2,200 + VAT
- Naturalisation as a British citizen £1,500 – £1,800 + VAT
- Sponsor licence application £1,500 – £3,000 + VAT
- EU Settlement Scheme application £750 – £1,200 + VAT
- MN1 child citizenship registration £700 – £950 + VAT
- Certificate of Sponsorship support £600 – £900 + VAT
- Visit visa application £750 – £950 + VAT
- Fee-waiver application — per applicant £500 – £750 + VAT
Appeals & other services
- Preparing & submitting an appeal only £300 – £500 + VAT
- Appeal case preparation £1,800 – £2,500 + VAT
- Asylum application £1,500 – £2,000 + VAT
- Fresh claim £1,500 – £2,000 + VAT
- National Referral Mechanism matter £1,500 – £2,000 + VAT
- Revocation or deprivation matter £1,500 – £2,000 + VAT
- Judicial review £2,000 – £3,500 + VAT
- Responding to deportation £2,000 – £3,500 + VAT
- Immigration bail application only £1,500 – £2,500 + VAT
- Pre-action protocol letter £300 – £500 + VAT
- Subject access request £200 – £350 + VAT
- — Home Office fees, the Immigration Health Surcharge and tribunal fees are set by government and change — we confirm any third-party cost and obtain your authority before incurring it.
Full fee information — hourly rates, what each price includes, disbursements and government charges — is on our fees & service information page. Nothing here is a quote: every client gets a written, itemised figure before instructing us.
UK immigration services we cover
From your first visa to your British passport — one firm for the whole journey, for you and the people who depend on you.
Skilled Worker visas and the sponsor licences behind them — for applicants, and for the businesses doing the hiring.
Skilled Worker · Sponsor licences · Global TalentSpouse, partner, parent and child routes — evidence built properly the first time, so families aren't kept apart by paperwork.
Spouse & partner · Children · ParentsIndefinite leave to remain — timing, absences and evidence checked well before you apply, so nothing trips you at the finish line.
5-year routes · Long residenceNaturalisation and registration, through to the ceremony — the final step of the journey, done right.
Naturalisation · Registration of childrenA refusal is not the end. We review the decision fast and pick the strongest response — appeal, administrative review or a better fresh application.
Appeals · Admin review · Fresh applicationsStudent visas, dependants and the switch into work routes when you finish — planned so one stage sets up the next.
Student · Graduate · SwitchingVisa. Settlement. Citizenship.
UK immigration is a ladder, and the rung you start on decides how the rest climbs. The decisions that matter for your British passport — which route, how you evidence it, how many days you spend abroad — get made years earlier. Here's the whole picture.
Some routes run faster, some slower, and the rules change often — which is why the route check comes first. Plan the ladder once, at the start, and every application along it gets easier.
The real cost of an application
Legal fees are only one line. On top sit the Home Office application fee, the Immigration Health Surcharge — charged per year of visa, per person, and payable up front — plus biometrics and any priority service you choose for a faster decision.
For a family, those numbers add up quickly and they change with the rules. Before you commit to anything, we put the full figure for your household in writing — our fixed fee and every Home Office cost, itemised.
Some family routes allow fee waivers where paying would leave you destitute — ask us; it's a genuine option, not a loophole.
The three traps we check first
Immigration law is hard enough in your first language.
Our team advises directly in English, Albanian, Bengali, Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi — no interpreter in the middle of your case, no nuance lost. And clients across 40+ countries work with us entirely remotely, in their own time zone.
Led by a solicitor clients thank by name
Senior, decisive representation — the partner our reviews mention more than any other.
Calm, decisive representation across visas, settlement, appeals and family matters — and the solicitor clients thank most often in our reviews.
What clients say
"Waterstone have represented my immigration matters for years. Success is their watchword — they render the best service, and it shows in every result."
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The questions we hear most, answered straight. Anything else — call us, it's what we're for.
Call 020 7063 9040Tell us where you're heading.
We'll map the route.
A free initial route check from an immigration solicitor — your options, your chances and the costs, the same working day.