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Gillian assists the US team with a range of cases involving business and family-based immigration matters.

MC is an attorney with the US team in London. Her practice areas include advising and preparing all categories of non-immigrant and immigrant cases, with particular emphasis on L-1 intra-company transfers and Blanket petitions, E-1 and E-2 treaty investors, O-1 persons with extraordinary ability, waivers of inadmissibility, EB-1 and family-based green cards. MC also advises on US citizenship matters including renunciation. Before joining LDI, she specialized in US litigation as a partner with boutique law firm Kaplan Landau LLP in New York.

Lorraine is a paralegal in our London office. She assists the UK team on a range of corporate immigration matters.

Nadine is a Paralegal in our London office. She assists the UK team on a range of business, personal and family-based immigration matters.

Robert is a paralegal in our London office. He assists with the day-to-day handling of a range of UK corporate immigration matters.

Yael is a Trainee Solicitor with the UK team at Laura Devine Immigration. She assists in advising on personal and business immigration as well as corporate, high net worth and personal clients. Yael also assists on the day-to-day handling of immigration matters.

Ellie is a Solicitor at Laura Devine Immigration in London. She assists the UK team with personal and business immigration and provides support on the day-to-day handling of immigration matters.

Josh is PSL Team Co-ordinator to the UK team in London. He provides support to the UK solicitors for corporate, high net worth, personal and pro bono clients. He has experience with a variety of UK immigration applications ranging from applications under the points-based system to family, naturalisation and private life matters.

Josh is part of LDI’s PSL Team and assists with the regular dissemination and provision of up-to-date legal knowledge to the rest of the UK team.

Matthew is a Partner at Laura Devine Immigration in London and has focused exclusively on UK immigration and nationality law since 2010. His extensive knowledge and practical legal skills equip him to deal with a full range of corporate and personal immigration matters. Matthew’s experience includes identifying and facilitating immigration solutions for multinational businesses, preparing nationality applications, assisting with complex family matters, advising on discretionary basis applications made on the grounds of Article 8 ECHR rights and pursuing appeals to the First Tier Tribunal. He has been prominently involved with the firm’s pro-bono programme (managing the most notable pro-bono project to date). He co-manages the Human Rights practice with Zeena Luchowa.

Matthew is known for his considered, pragmatic and solutions-focused approach in challenging cases. He has been successful in overturning adverse Home Office decisions and assisting family members of British citizens in obtaining immigration status in esoteric circumstances. He has also secured status for long-term overstayers with particularly challenging immigration backgrounds.

Matthew is the President of the Union Internationale des Avocats National Committee UK and has acted as the Newsletter Editor-in-Chief for the Immigration and Nationality Law Commission since 2017, collating and publishing submissions on a wide range of topics on immigration matters from practitioners based globally. A confident and engaging speaker, he has presented on a diverse range of topics at the organisation’s international annual congresses and other internal and external events (including sessions run by The Legal Training Consultancy). He is experienced in training other UK immigration practitioners through the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association.

Matthew has commented on developing issues on UK immigration through Lexis Nexis and Thomson Reuters and is part of the Law Society’s EU Mobility Working Group. He is recognised in Legal 500 UK as ‘versatile with good client care skills’ and noted as appreciating the needs of vulnerable clients.

Lydia is a Solicitor with the UK team at Laura Devine Immigration in London. She has experience in personal and business immigration matters, and advises on a range of immigration applications for corporate, high net worth and personal clients.