Our Services - Acharyas Solicitors

Our Mission is to make your legal journey a successful one. We will act with boldness and integrity.

The Acharyas Service.

As a bespoke Immigration Law firm, we offer a wide range of services, all tailored to meet your demands. We have been specialising in UK Immigration Law for the past 10 years and have had experience with a broad range of cases and client situations.

Emergency Immigration Services are available nationwide across the entire United Kingdom.

Our commitment to you is:
Clear, straightforward advice in a language you understand
A highly professional personal service
A friendly, caring and approachable team of legal experts
The boundaries of the law are tested, where necessary, to achieve the best outcomes for you
Transparent costs with no hidden surprises

APPLICATIONS

Our services include but not limited to the following:
Asylum
Our representatives can attend interviews with an applicant in an interactive way
Taking detailed instructions
Helping applicants with the drafting of their statements
Further submissions
Appeals
Applications for permission to the Upper Tribunal
Applications for Judicial review in the Administrative court
Fresh claims/ further submissions
Legacy applications
Human rights applications
Detention and bail applications
Deportation appeals

IMMIGRATION

The whole framework of the points based systems (tiers 1 to 5)
Appeals
Applications for further leave to remain as dependants
Family reunions
Entry clearance applications and related appeals
Marriage applications/ unmarried partner applications
Student applications
Long residence applications/ appeals
Applications based on domestic violence
UK Ancestry
Applications in terms of the immigration rules: and outside the immigration rules
Applications for further leave to remain
Applications based on access rights to a child
Applications to resolve complicated immigration matters
Naturalisation and nationality issues
EU/ EEA residents and registration permits

Fees

To ensure our clients and our potential clients have the information they need to make informed choices about the services offered by Acharyas, we set out below a guide to our prices.

At Acharyas we have highly experienced immigration solicitors and advisers who are ready to guide you through the UK immigration legislation and procedures concerning any immigration, asylum, humanitarian protection application or appeal.

We have many years of experience in the immigration field and based on this experience have determined a fixed fee scale reflecting the needs of clients.

Regardless of who works on your matter, they will be supervised by Mr Jitendra Acharya, who is the Sole Proprietor of this Firm and a Qualified Solicitor.

We detail below the range of costs for various applications, but we do not include the asylum work as that varies greatly between one country and another and the complexity of each case.

The mandatory requirements to advertise our price information excludes asylum cases, Human Rights, Private Life applications, applicants for bail and Judicial Review claims, and Statelessness applications. Please contact us for information regarding these types of cases

We offer fixed fees for the majority of the work that we provide and these are indicated as in this guide. A fixed fee is an agreed fee, which will not be varied up or down, and is not dependant on the application being successful. As set out below, any disbursements or expenses (costs that we incur on your behalf or for the purposes of carrying out our work) are payable in addition to our fees. In the event of your instructions being withdrawn prior to the submission of the application, the fixed fee, together with any disbursements and expenses, will remain payable in full.

Please see below a list of fees for the most popular types of service. For any other service not listed below, please contact us for a free no obligation discussion and fee quote.

Telephone Discussion & Quote

Please call us to discuss the details of your case, the options available to you and how we can assist. We can also discuss fees based on your circumstances and give you a quote. Alternatively, you can email us using the our enquiry form.

1. Initial Consultation: (£100 + VAT*) +/- £100

What this includes: Considering documents attending on the client taking your instructions and providing advice and follow up advice confirmation.

2. Entry Clearance Application – Applying from abroad to join family in the UK

a. Spouse/Fiancée/Proposed Civil Partner/Unmarried partner: (£1,800 + VAT*) +/- £200.
All figures exclude VAT unless specifically stated. Out of country applications do not attract VAT unless made within the EEA.

b. Spousal/Fiancée/Proposed Civil Partner/Unmarried partner: (£2,000 + VAT*) +/- £200 (If relying on self-employment).
All figures exclude VAT unless specifically stated. Out of country applications do not attract VAT unless made within the EEA.

c. Adult Dependant Relatives: (£2,000 + VAT) +/- £200
All figures exclude VAT unless specifically stated. Out of country applications do not attract VAT unless made within the EEA.

What this includes: Our fees for making an entry clearance application will include consultations, taking detailed instructions, considering documents and advising on timelines, drafting statements, providing a tailored made list of documents specific to your case to support the application, assessing each document to ensure maximum chance of success, making the application, booking an appointment at the visa centre, full preparation of the application pack with detailed legal representations. The cost quoted does not include where the Home Office refuse your application, advice and assistance in relation to any appeal.

3. Entry Clearance Application (applying from abroad): (£1,400 + VAT*) +/- £200
All figures exclude VAT unless specifically stated. Out of country applications do not attract VAT unless made within the EEA.

This includes: –

· Tier 4 students

· Tier 5 temporary workers

· Ancestry visas (If you are a Commonwealth citizen, have a grandparent who was born in the UK and are able and planning to work in the UK)

4.In Country Student Tier 4: (£1,200 +VAT*) +/- £200
All figures exclude VAT unless specifically stated. Out of country applications do not attract VAT unless made within the EEA.

What this includes: Our fees for making an in country application will include consultations, taking detailed instructions, considering documents and advising on timelines, drafting statements, providing a tailored made list of documents specific to your case to support the application, assessing each document to ensure maximum chance of success, making the application by post or on line where applicable, full preparation of the application pack with detailed legal representations. The cost quoted does not include where the Home Office refuse your application, advice and assistance in relation to any appeal.

5.Entry Clearance – Visit Visa for tourism or visiting friends/family: (£950.00 + VAT*) +/- £250
Visit applications do not attract VAT in most circumstances.

6.In Country Further Leave to Remain Applications: (£1,500.00 + VAT*) +/- £200
All figures exclude VAT unless specifically stated.

These include, but are not limited to:

· Spouse

· Fiancée

· Proposed Civil Partner/

· Unmarried partner/

· Family life and Private life routes

7.In Country Indefinite Leave to Remain/ Settlement Applications: (£1,500 + VAT*) +/- £200
All figures exclude VAT unless specifically stated.

These include:

· Spouse

· Fiancée

· Proposed Civil Partner

· Unmarried partner

· Ancestry

· Family life and Private life routes

8.Long Residence Applications – In Country Long Residence 10 Years (continuous legal residence): (£1,500 + VAT*) +/- £400
All figures exclude VAT unless specifically stated.

9.In Country Long Residence 20 Year route: (£2,000 + VAT*) +/- £400
All figures exclude VAT unless specifically stated.

10. Applications for Residing in the UK as an EEA National or a family member of an EEA National, or Joining EU Citizens in the UK
All figures exclude VAT unless specifically stated. Out of country applications do not attract VAT unless made within the EEA.

EU Pre-settled Status: (£1000.00 +VAT*) +/- £500.00

EU Settled Status: (£1000+ VAT*) +/-£500.00

EA Family Permit: (£ 1500+VAT*) +/- £300.00

EEA Registration Certificate: (£1200+VAT*) +/- £300.00

EEA Residence card (£1200.00 +VAT*) +/- £300.00

EEA Permanent Residence(£1500+VAT*) +/- £300.00

11. Applying for British Citizenship

Adults: (£950 + VAT*) +/- £200
All figures exclude VAT unless specifically stated. Out of country applications do not attract VAT unless made within the EEA.

Children under 18: (£800 + VAT*) +/- £200
All figures exclude VAT unless specifically stated. Out of country applications do not attract VAT unless made within the EEA.

12. Appeals

Non asylum: (£2,000 + VAT*) +/- £500
All figures exclude VAT unless specifically stated. Out of country applications do not attract VAT unless made within the EEA.

What this includes: Our fees for lodging and representing an appeal before the First Tier Tribunal will include drafting grounds of appeal, lodging with the Tribunal, consultations, taking detailed instructions, considering documents and advising on timelines, drafting statements, providing a tailored made list of documents specific to your case to support the appeal, assessing each document to ensure maximum chance of success, preparing court bundles, liaise with the Tribunal, Home Office, a Barrister and any Experts. If the appeal is unsuccessful, the cost quoted does not include any advice and assistance in relation to any onward appeal or the cost of the Barristers fees or any Expert or Medical Reports.

13. Applying for family members to join a refugee in the UK (£1,000 + VAT*) +/- £200
All figures exclude VAT unless specifically stated. Out of country applications do not attract VAT unless made within the EEA.

* Please note:

1. VALUE ADDED TAX (VAT)

You are not liable for VAT if you do not have permission to live in the UK, if you are a visitor, or if you are making an application from abroad for an entry clearance. Therefore, depending on your personal circumstances and the nature of the application we will advise you on whether VAT will be added to the fees quoted.

2. Not included in any of the above fees are:

· Barrister fees. In the event of us seeking the advice of a Barrister (Counsel) you will be liable for their fees which vary depending on seniority. We will discuss with you options and costs in relation to Counsel before instructing them on your behalf.

· Expert report fees

· Cost of interpreters if required

· Translations

· Preparing Schedules of Absences from the UK

· Attending any Home Office interviews

· Home Office / Visa fees and any Premium Service supplements

· Immigration Health Surcharge

· Court fees

· Housing Reports for Immigration purposes

· DNA tests where appropriate

· Any other cost related to your matter that are payable to third parties

2. A supplement of up to £550 + VAT may apply for each additional dependant / multiple applicants.

3. We cannot guarantee how long the Home Office / Visa Centre will take to process your application. Please refer to the current processing times on the Home Office Website.

4. Factors which could increase the overall cost of your case. For Example:

· Unexpected circumstances in your immigration history, personal circumstances, or financial status which we were not aware of at the outset;

· Delays in obtaining information requested;

· Information provided being inaccurate, out of date, inadequate or requiring translation; or

· Where there are short deadlines.

More complex applications may attract higher fees, and we will always advise you on this.