
Sam is a Solicitor at Laura Devine Immigration and has focused exclusively on UK immigration and nationality law since 2012.
At Laura Devine Immigration, Sam advises both corporate and private clients on a wide range of personal and business immigration and nationality matters.
His extensive experience includes facilitating immigration solutions for multinational companies including tech start-ups and companies in the insurance, banking, and life sciences sector, successfully securing settlement and British citizenship for clients whose applications were complex and required the Home Office/Secretary of State to exercise discretion and assisting tech entrepreneurs and dancers in being granted Global Talent visas. He has developed particular expertise with sponsor licence applications, compliance and sponsored worker applications.
Sam is an experienced trainer and public speaker, having trained other immigration practitioners on behalf of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA) for over seven years, presented a LexisNexis webinar on right to work and compliance (together with Natasha Chell, Partner) and he spoke at the ILPA sponsor licence conference in 2023. He has been involved in successfully lobbying the Home Office to effect policy changes and was also invited to the Cabinet Digital Office to provide feedback as an ‘expert user’ when the former UK Border Agency (UKBA) website moved to gov.uk.
History
2016-present – Laura Devine Immigration, London
2012-2016 – UKVISAS.COM (now Astons)
Education
2019 – Admitted as a Solicitor of England and Wales
2011 – LPC, College of Law (Bloomsbury)
2005-2009 – LLB, Cardiff University
Latest Insights
1 July 2025
Home Office publishes Statements of Changes in Immigration Rules HC 997 (1 July 2025) and HC 836 (24 June 2025)
The Home Office has today published a new Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules (HC 997) in connection with details outlined in the Government’s…
27 June 2025
Migration Advisory Committee advises against further increases to minimum income requirement under the family route
In its hotly anticipated report published on 10 June 2025, The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has recommended that the minimum income requirement…
26 June 2025
Zeena Luchowa quoted in the Law Society Gazette
Zeena Luchowa (Partner) has been quoted by the Law Society Gazette in an article entitled ‘In depth: foreign lawyers in immigration limbo’.