Warner News
01/10/2009
Two new policy announcements for Tier 4
New policy for Tier 4 sponsors
01/10/2009
Identity cards speeds up
Skilled migrants renewing their visas to stay in the United Kingdom will be issued with an identity card from the new year, three months ahead of schedule, Home Secretary Alan Johnson announced today.
What We Do
Warner Pride is not a law firm, and therefore, we are not confined by the bureaucracies and cost structures found within such entities. For example we do not charge a fee based on every six minutes of work we do for our client, which is the typical method of charging by a law firm. Also, we do not charge for making photocopies of documents, which is another disbursement that is not easy for you to control. In fact, we do not charge disbursement fees at all; all of our fees are fixed.
A typical law firm is likely to provide a multitude of services, such as litigation, or writing a will, one day, and conveyancing or a dispute about a neighbour's dog, the next day. And, although a law firm can provide immigration services simply because they are a law firm, it does not mean that a law firm is an immigration expert. Therefore, we recommend great care should be taken when choosing a service provider to meet your immigration needs.
To use an analogy, a brain surgeon and coronary surgeon are both specialist doctors with years of specialist training, but would you really choose a brain surgeon to operate on you if you had a heart attack?
Our Clients
We work with two types of clients, corporate and private clients, both of whom need our undivided care, attention and respect. When we work with our corporate client we remember that we have a duty of care to their organisation, as well as to the people within that organisation. When we work with our private clients, there is often more than one person involved on the client’s side, which could include the client’s family.
Our role is to listen, understand, give advice and guidance and genuinely care for the results we achieve for our clients', and ultimately to nurture our clients’ aspirations or needs to a successful outcome. This care is one of the reasons why our staff do not have sales targets; they have quality targets to enable them to think solely about our clients’ needs and not if they have billed enough this month.This is a significantly different business model designed to benefit our clients.
Ultimately, because our experts provide a human approach to caring for and meeting our clients’ needs, and exceeding their expectations, and because they are not being transfixed by meeting a minimum billable target per month, our business has grown via referrals from happy clients.
The services we provide are not considered mainstream by many; however, the more companies explore the opportunities open to them by adopting alternative approaches to recruitment, the more we are called in to advise and to provide clear strategic, yet alternative, solutions.
Our Services
We help corporate clients’ with the following:
- working with organisations with their initial application to obtain a UK Border Agency Sponsor Licence with an ‘A’ Rating
- working with organisations who have been granted a ‘B’ Rating to ensure they are awarded an ‘A’ Rating
- working in partnership with organisations as Key Contact and/or as a Level 1 User
- working with organisations as an outsourced HR services company via Warner Pride’s Human Resources Service division
- flawless preparation and success for transferring overseas staff to the UK
- developing global talent mobility and recruitment solutions
- immigration and compliance training
- delivering solutions for employee retention (particularly overseas students working in the UK, working holidaymakers (now Tier 5) and dependents)
- working with an organisations senior management and/or HR team to ensure compliance with the Immigration and Asylums Acts (see Immigration Compliance Service)
We help private clients’ with the following:
- Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 4 and Tier 5 applications
- entry clearance
- further leave to remain
- indefinite leave to remain (aka permanent residency)
- citizenship
- fiancé(e) visa
- marriage visa
- ancestry
- EEA family
- visitor
- others
Our method of developing a successful and strategic partnership with our clients involves collaborating, sharing, using and improving knowledge, which can fundamentally change the dynamics of a good relationship into a mutually dependant one. This approach adds true and measurable value to our clients’, both organisation and individuals.
Our Unique Guarantee
Because organisations and individuals are often nervous about choosing a company to assist them with their immigration needs, we wanted to give organisations and individuals a financial safeguard in order to give them a level of confidence when choosing a service provider.
To this end Warner Pride guarantee to meet our contractual obligations or we will refund 150% of our fee.