Advocate Falguni Laheru

Advocate Falguni Laheru, Principal Immigration Solicitor at SmartMove2UK, is qualified Lawyer in India and Solicitor for England and Wales. She provides specialist immigration advice to individual clients in respect of Points Based System applications - including Tier 2 (General) and Tier 2 (Intra Company Transfer), Tier 1 (Entrepreneur), Tier 1 (Graduate Entrepreneur), Tier 1 (Investor) and those applying under Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent). She also advises on non Points Based System applications and often advises inward investors to the UK on establishing a presence under the sole representatives route.

Advocate Falguni represents family members of EEA and Swiss nationals before the British High Commission Post. She assist those seeking extension of their visa application within UK or to naturalise as British citizens.

Falguni has wealth of experience in representing client who may have been the victim of an unlawful immigration decision that can be challenged by an application for Appeals, Administrative Review and judicial review. She has got favourable decision for clients who were refused visa application under country banning paragraph 320 7 (a) and (b).

Advocate Falguni has advise clients in relation to the legal implications of surrogacy arrangements and, following the birth of a child via such an arrangement, she has assisted clients with the requisite legal steps to enable them to acquire full parental rights and responsibilities from a court including registration of children born under these arrangement as British Citizen, applying for their British Nationality.

Advocate Falguni has appeared on BBC World News with Jon Sopel, BBC Radio One, speaker at Education Abroad Summit organised by DNA and key note speaker on UK Immigration issues on several local community and business forums like BNI, BBN, and many more.

Her clientele includes business houses like Birla, ICICI Ventures, Infrasoftech, and several Bollywood celebrities and sports stars.