Timothy MacFarlan#14597

Timothy MacFarlan

Tim is an adaptable and strategic immigration law specialist, with broad experience advising corporate and private clients. On the business immigration side this includes: Skilled Worker and Global Business Mobility; sponsor licence applications; immigration aspects of TUPE and company restructuring; auditing of HR and right to work processes and sponsor duty compliance. Tim’s personal immigration experience includes: partner applications; Global Talent; EU Settlement Scheme; citizenship; Long Residence; Government Authorised Exchange; UK Ancestry; regular and Treaty Rights passport applications. Tim started work with the firm in September 2025. Before moving into law, Tim worked in journalism for nine years, including 18 months freelancing in Mexico as a foreign correspondent. Tim previously worked as a Trainee Solicitor at Laura Devine Immigration. Tim qualified as a Solicitor via the SQE route and is always keen to hear from anyone looking to do the same, especially other career changers.

Practice Area

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Qualified Year

  • 2024

Experience

  • Helen Smith Immigration (2025 - Present)
  • Laura Devine Immigration (2021 - 2025)

Membership

  • Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association

Qualifications

  • Postgraduate Diploma, Newspaper Journalism (2012)
  • Bachelor of Arts, American Studies (2011)

Education

  • University of Cardiff (2012)
  • University of Nottingham (2011)

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