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Immigration advice

Find out where you actually stand.

A short set of questions, answered by a person, telling you which route fits and what it would cost — both halves of the cost. We cannot promise anyone a visa, and neither can anybody else. What we can do is say honestly whether it is worth applying yet.

Free eligibility check

This is not a decision and it is not advice. It tells us which route to look at and what we would need from you — and it is free whether or not you ever instruct us.
What you pay us
The eligibility check — Free, and read by a person rather than a script
A full one-hour review — $180, and it comes off the fee if you instruct us
A straightforward application — $1,200 fixed, agreed in writing before anything starts
A complex case, or one refused before — Quoted after we have read the papers, never before
An appeal — Quoted per stage — and we say when an appeal isn't worth bringing
What you pay the government
The application fee — Set by the government, changes without notice, and is not ours
Any health or immigration surcharge — Also theirs, and not negotiable by anyone
Biometrics and documents — Theirs, or a third party's
Translation and certification — A translator's fee — not a legal one
If it is refused — Government fees are generally not returned. Ours is a separate conversation
We publish both columns because the second one is usually the bigger shock, and because a quote that leaves it out is not really a quote. We take no share of a government fee and we never add a percentage on top of one.
Nobody can promise you a visa
Who decides your application — A government caseworker. Not your lawyer, and not an agent
Who decides an appeal — A judge, on the evidence actually in front of them
What a good adviser changes — The quality of what the decision-maker is looking at — a real difference, and the only one
What a guarantee means — That somebody is lying to you. Walk away, and report them
If we believe an application will fail, we say so before you spend the fee — even though saying so costs us the work. That is the whole of the difference between advice and salesmanship.

How to check any adviser is real

Ask for the registration number

Every regulated immigration adviser has one. Ask us for ours in writing before you pay anything, and be suspicious of hesitation.

Check it on the register yourself

Don't accept a screenshot as proof of anything. Go to the regulator's own website and search the name. It takes about a minute.

Beware unregulated 'consultants'

In many countries giving immigration advice without regulation is an offence. The person harmed by it is almost never the consultant.

Never hand over your originals

Passports and certificates stay with you. A real adviser works from copies and asks to see originals in front of you, then gives them straight back.

What we handle

Work and skilled routes

Sponsorship, switching from another visa, and what to do when the employer's licence is the weak point rather than you.

Family and partners

Bringing a partner, parent or child, and the financial and relationship evidence these applications genuinely turn on.

Settlement and citizenship

Counting the qualifying days properly, absences, and the ordinary mistakes that reset the clock without anybody telling you.

Refused before

We read the refusal letter first and quote afterwards. Sometimes the advice is to wait and fix one thing rather than reapply now.

They told me to wait four months and gather two more documents instead of applying straight away. It cost them the fee that year, and it was the right advice.

K. Adeyemi

Family route

English is my third language and nobody once made me feel slow. Every letter arrived with a plain summary at the top of it.

Marta W.

Settlement

Talk to someone
The eligibility check at the top of this page is the quickest way in. If you would rather speak first, the number below reaches a person and not a menu.
We work in several languages and we arrange an interpreter when we don't hold yours. Ask when you call — it is never a problem, and it is never charged as an extra.
© Border & Co — regulated immigration advice. No guarantees, because no adviser can give one.

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