Rose Carey

Solicitor, Lewis Silkin LLP

Rose Carey is a Partner in the immigration team at Lewis Silkin LLP, based across the firm's London and Cardiff offices. She has more than two decades of experience in UK immigration law. Before joining Lewis Silkin, she was Partner and Head of the Immigration Group at Charles Russell Speechlys LLP, based in its London office, from 2012 to 2025. Before that, she was a Senior Associate in the business immigration team at Squire Sanders (UK) LLP.

Rose specialises in business and personal immigration. She advises multinational employers, entrepreneurs and high-net-worth individuals. Her practice covers the full range of corporate immigration work, including:

sponsor licence applications, ongoing sponsor compliance, audit preparation and responses to Home Office compliance action
right to work and illegal working compliance, with a particular focus on the new right to work regime, including reviewing contracting and supply chain arrangements to which extended illegal working liability applies
advice to businesses setting up UK operations

She has extensive experience advising high-net-worth individuals and entrepreneurs on their UK immigration options. This includes applications under the Innovator Founder and Global Talent routes, often on an urgent basis. She also advises on complex personal and dependant matters. She handles contentious work too, representing clients in appeals before the First-tier and Upper Tribunals and in judicial review proceedings. Rose is often approached to give second opinions on complex cases.

Rose is ranked as a leading practitioner in Chambers UK, The Legal 500 and Spear's 500. She is known for a creative, practical and client-focused approach and for working constructively with the Home Office at a senior level.

She is closely involved in immigration policy. She has submitted evidence to the Migration Advisory Committee and has given evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee. She is Co-Chair of the Immigration and Human Trafficking Committee of the American Bar Association's Section of Labor and Employment Law. She speaks, writes, comments and trains widely on business immigration law and practice.