How to find best UK immigration Solicitors or Choose a top rated UK Immigration Advice Firm? Checklist

• Introduction
• Watch Video on Choosing a Visa Firm
• Choosing Adviser- Checklist
  • 1. Firm Registration- Verify
  • 2. Relevant Experience
  • 3. Success Rate
  • 4. Allocated case worker
  • 5. Customer Reviews
  • 6. Modes of service
  • 7. Professional indemnity Insurance
  • 8. Language (s)
  • 9. Fees- Hidden Costs
  • 10. Processing time to prepare and submit visa application
• Our Full Application Service
• Booking our service
• Help
  

Introduction

For a UK visa application, if you find it challenging and difficult to prepare the application and documents yourself then only take help from a registered and professional UK visa firm. There are many factors which should be taken into account when instructing an immigration adviser or a solicitor such as registration, professional insurance, relevant experience, success rate and modes of services.

Watch Video on Choosing a Visa Firm

Choosing Adviser- Checklist

For most of the people, this could be their first experience to find and get help for immigration matters to sponsor their partner, children or other family members in the UK or extend their visas, applying for Indefinite Leave to Remain ILR or Citizenship. For businesses, maybe they are looking to get professional advice for sponsor licence applications to sponsor migrant workers from inside the UK or outside the UK. We have highlighted the main points which can be followed to select the best possible visa firm for their immigration matters.

1. Firm Registration- Verify

The details of the immigration lawyer should be checked with the Licencing Regulatory Body. Use our postcode ST6 7AZ or search by our business name ZR Visas. https://home.oisc.gov.uk/adviser_finder/finder.aspx.

Our Registration- https://zrvisas.com/uk/our-credentials-how-to-verify-our-registratin-with-oisc-home-office-uk-how-to-verify-our-professional-indemnity-insurance/

Verify our Registration on UK Government website. We are Regulated by the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC, Home Office, UK). Registration Number: F201100207.

Verify our Registration on UK Government website. We are Regulated by the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC, Home Office, UK). Registration Number: F201100207.

2. Relevant Experience

Some law firms may have great customer reviews but their reviews may be for other non-immigration services such as commercial or residential property, inheritance, wills, criminal law matters. Therefore it may be worth asking and checking for relevant experience for the type of applications you need help with. We at ZR Visas have more than 16 Years of Experience in UK Immigration matters. See our success rate page for visa approvals dated back to 2008.

3. Success Stories- Most recent relevant visa approvals

Making success claims is must easier than actually providing evidence of such claims. Asking for recent visa approvals (ideally within last 4-6 months) can help you to understand their success rate alongside their customer reviews. Checking dates of customer reviews with visa approvals can verify the success rate claims.

Our Top Services- Types of Immigration Applications	Success Rate	Years
Spouse Visa Extension/ Switch Applications	100%	2006 to date
Fiance Visa Applications	100%	2006 to date
Fee Waiver Applications	100%	2006 to date
Parent Route Visa Extension -FLR	100%	2006 to date
Naturalisatio (British Citizenship)	100%	2006 to date
Indefinite Leave to Remain	100%	2006 to date
Skilled Worker Visa	100%	2006 to date
Dependent Children- Leave to Enter & Visa Extension	100%	2006 to date
Dependent Children- Indefinite Leave to Enter (ILE)	100%	2006 to date
Employer Sponsor Licence	100%	2006 to date

4. Allocated case worker

Ask the question whether you will have an allocated adviser for your visa application. This brings a lot of benefits including a point of contact from the start to the end of the immigration matter. At ZR Visas, OISC (the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner) Registered Adviser will be your case worker when you book our ‘Full Application Preparation & Submission Service‘.

5. Customer Reviews

The Internet brought a lot of blessings for all of us. Without stepping out, you can search, understand and evaluate any business. Google being the most widely used search engine, could be a starting point to search for an immigration firm. Google can provide customer reviews such as Google Business Reviews, Truslpilot Reviews, presence of a particular business on other social media platforms such as on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Youtube.

Search ‘ZR Visas‘ to read all reviews on Google, Trustpilot, Yell, Bark, Facebook, 192.com. 5 Star Reviews across all platforms.

	Reviews	Rating	More information
Google Review	284	5/5	Read Reviews
Trustpilot	172	4.9/5	Read Reviews
Nicelocal	112	5/5	Read Reviews
Bark	63	5/5	Read Reviews
Yell	40	5/5	Read Reviews
Facebook	20	4.8/5	Read Reviews
Total Reviews	690	5.0 (Average)

6. Modes of service (online/ in person/ combination of both)

Though most of the services are provided online as pandemic has changed the world substantially. The different firms may have different modes of providing the servies such as in person, Online, email, WhatsApp, Skype, Post or combination of any of them. At ZR Visas, we used all above (except in person) modes to provide the best possible services, read mode.

7. Professional indemnity Insurance

Things can go wrong with the visa application. Therefore always ask the legal firm for their professional indemnity insuance. At ZR Visas, we are fully insured up to the £250,000 for all UK Visas, Immigration and Nationality matters. We never had any claim against us since we started our business in 2006. We are confident that it will never happen. But in any case, where you think that you have lost money in the form of visas fees and it was caused by our us, you are 100% protected.
Policy No: 14619867, read details.

8. Language(s)

If English is not your first language and you are unable to communicate at fair level then it may be worth asking for an adviser in your own language. The language barrier may cause misunderstandings between you and your adviser. We at ZR Visas provide advice in 5 Languages: English, اردو, हिन्दी , سرائیکی. پنجابی.

9. Fees- No Hidden Costs & Surprise Bills

This is common to receive surprise bills, we observe in everyday life. Therefore asking for a fee structure in writing, asking about hidden costs, potential extra fees, VAT and any non-official disbursements may give you peace of mind. This will also help you to allocate and plan your budget for visa application.

We at ZR Visas have a very competitive One Single Fixed Fee. No hidden costs whatsoever. Read more details on our Fee Page. All our fees are clearly displayed on our website and are all inclusive.

Application Type	Fees (Fixed, No Hidden Costs, No VAT)
Naturalisation/ British Nationality	£900
Skilled Worker Visa	£600
Spouse Visa Extension FLR/ Switching/ Entry Clearance	£1100
Additional Dependant/ Child of UK sposnor/ Family Member applying at same time (within UK App only)	£500
UK Dependant Children Visa Appendix FM- Child from previous relationship	£1100
Immigration Home Survey (Virtual) Report	£250
Subject Access	£400
Indefinite Leave to Remain- ILR	£1100
Parent Route Visa Extension	£1100
Fiance Visa/ Marriage Visitor Visa	£1100
Issue CoS to Employee	£500
Fee Waiver Application (Standalone application)	£750
Fee Waiver (booked with Partner/ Parent route Full application Service)	£500
Visit Visa/ Family Visit/ Business Visit	£750
EU Settlement Scheme Application/ Family Permit	£750
Schengen Visit Visa	£750
Student Visa Application	£1100
Global Talent Visa- Endorsement	£1100
Global Talent Visa Application	£1100
Defined CoS Application to UKVI	£600
Employer Sponsor Licence Application	£1500

10. Processing time to prepare and submit visa applicaiton

For most people, time is of essence and very important.This could be particularly important in cases where family members are living apart and making visa applications from outside the UK to join their loved ones in the UK (for example, Fiance Visa Application, Spouse Visa Application, Dependent Children, Dependent Relative), due to obvious reasons that visa processing on average takes 26 weeks or 6 months. Even so, it is equally important that the application is well prepared in the best possible way. In these circumstances, one should ask the business on how long they will take to prepare and submit the visa application.

We at ZR Visas prepare the application within 5 working days of receiving all documents and required information. On draft approval from the client, we can submit a visa application in as little as 1 working day.

The case worker or firm’s workload can affect the quality of the immigration advice you receive from them. At ZR Visas, the best interest of our clients is very important to us. Therefore, we only take new cases when we can handle them in the best possible way. This is the reason we have a 100% success rate in the majority categories of UK Visas. https://zrvisas.com/our-success-rate. Where we can not take new cases, we have a system in place for waiting lists for new clients. See current status. 

On first contact, if a firm is not willing to provide this information, one should vary of trusting their immigration matter with that business. Choosing the right immigration adviser firm or law firm for immigration can make a lot of difference in terms of quality of the work and cost.

At ZR Visas, we have details of almost everything on our website and will be happy to answer any questions you may have. We understand that this is your right to know all the information about us, services, fees, visa success rate so that you can make an informed choice when choosing an immigration adviser for your next UK visa application. 

All our services can be booked online. 

Booking Our Service

For each visa, available services are listed in the ‘Our Services’ section of each visa page. For example, for spouse visa, from the menu, please select Spouse Visa. Within the page, go to Our Service section. Select the service you need, add the relevant service to the basket by clikcing ‘Add to Basket’ and click ‘Proceed to checkout’ like normal shopping. Fill in your name, address and contact number and click ‘Place Order’. You wlll receive order confirming email along with our business bank account details to make payment. Once you make payment, we will start wroking on your immigration matter. Feel free to contact us, should you need any assistance, read more.

Our Full Application Service

In this service, we do all the work for your visa, nationality or immigration application from very start to the end. We take care of everything and let you get on with your life while we work professionally and efficiently to get your visa, visa extension, indefinite leave to remain, EU resident permit or nationality. You can relax that your local and best in town immigration consultants are doing their best to get through the whole process smoothly, read more details.

Help

Feel free to contact us, should you have any questions about the services we offer. You can contact us by phone, email and WhatsApp.