Job ad: Immigration Solicitor, Birnberg Peirce Solicitors

Immigration Solicitor

Full Time: Salary on enquiry

We are a long-established London-based law firm focusing on protecting and advancing human rights. We are recruiting for an immigration solicitor.

We are an experienced department practising in a wide range of immigration matters.  We deal with cases from the initial application through to appeals and judicial reviews against negative decisions. We act in standard immigration and nationality matters, as well as complex and precedent setting litigation before the statutory tribunals including the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC), the higher courts, and in the European Court of Human Rights.

We are committed to providing high quality representation and advice.

The successful applicant will have recent professional experience of providing immigration casework in a legal or advice setting, and a commitment to maintaining a significant caseload of SIAC and other complex and demanding national security matters, alongside a broader immigration, nationality, and public law caseload.

Qualifications and experience:

• Immigration and Asylum accreditation Senior Caseworker, ideally with the additional supervisor qualification, otherwise a willingness to obtain this qualification within the first 6 months of employment.
• Experience of working under a Legal Aid Agency contract

Terms and conditions include:

• Pension Scheme
• Flexible working policy
• 23 days’ holiday per year plus bank holidays (rising to 25 days after 5 years)

Birnberg Peirce is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all who believe they fit the essential key skills and abilities required of the role. We encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex (gender) and sexual orientation.

We encourage people with lived experience of the issues we deal with to apply for the positions.

Please forward your CV and covering letter to the Practice Manager Claire Sibley, email sibleyc@birnbergpeirce.co.uk

Closing Date for applications: Friday 14 November 2025 at 5pm