Hi
I have received a number of complaints about Dean Morgan and First Migration. I was put in a position in the past where I found it necessary to send a crime report to the Police about Dean Morgan one of the founders of First Migration. Agnieszka Antoniak was also involved with him at that time and helped him start up First Migration.
I consider Dean Morgan to be untrustworthy. I also believe that his actions led to race discrimination.
Also, this forum should not be used for advertising. I have made some deletions. I have kept parts of the discussion thread that I think may be useful to other people.
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Hello folks,
Let me first thank all the admins, moderators, and every single member here who contributed towards the success of this forum. I have to admit that this not only a simple forum, but is The Bible of the UK immigration law, and on top of this it has free customer support service, that’s why I would like to thank again form the deepest of my heart the admins and mods who are answering people’s queries on daily basis.
Anyway I joined this forum back in March when I was about to apply for my Long residency (10 years) ILR, but I found that my application was not straightforward (check my first post here), basically my stay was broken and mainly because I’ve been outside the UK for more than 750 days with a longest absence of 182 days (including days of travel) at one time.
I kept looking everywhere for successful cases for those who have been outside the UK for more than 540 days, but I only came across two unsuccessful cases in this forum who their applications were rejected (i.e TheGreenTea and Benito'scases), and a post in whatdotheyknowwebsite which wasn’t helpful either. Since both sources were more discouraging, so I thought is my duty to share my successful experience with people who have broken their stay to encourage them to give it a try.
My journey has started by looking for a competent immigration lawyer/ solicitor or advisor who can secure my ILR as there are plenty of scam and dishonest ones everywhere. I managed to collect a list of few immigration specialist either from internet or from word or mouth, and then I contacted them. Few of them were very pessimists and / or probably incompetent, where others were very collaborative and confident, I’m enclosing few examples of solicitors’ reactions to my case:..
...On the other hand: I got a positive news from WorkPermit.com team, as they claimed that they won similar cases in the past, after I talked to them on the phone. I sent them an email to confirm and been told that:
“they were certain that they can assist me with my application. There indicated fee was £1750 + The Government fees too (approx. £2850 in total). They mentioned that the service is not available as a same day service so I need to lodge a postal application. They added that the postal service will take some 6 weeks to process .….” -WorkPermit.com.
Despite their reply was encouraging but I found £1750 is too much comparing to what others charge, which I personally think is just a rip-off, on top of this, 6 weeks to process my ILR application was far away to be true.
With regards to a cheap service I came across ukvisaexpert.com who charge only £300+ VAT for ILR and they offer “No Win No Fee” service. I sent them an email, they never got back to me, I called them first time, a lady picked up the phone and told me that her boss (his name is Kamal) is busy at the moment, but never called me back. I called a second time and I was lucky this time to get Kamal himself, I explained to him my case, he told me, is a 50% chance to win this case as it will be a discretion exercised application, and hence “No win No fee” policy will not be applied in this case. The guy sounded that he was in rush, and I felt he didn’t want neither to spent more time hearing me nor to provide more information. He may be a good person but I didn’t feel comfortable enough to go with him.
Other solicitors, didn’t accept to answer me over the phone or email, because basically they charge money for their time, this is an example of what I got from 1st 4 Immigration when I sent them an email explaining my case, but their reply was:
“ …The best way of going about it would be to book their advice session, over email or at their office in London. They could discuss my case and would answer my questions. Their advice fee is £70, which it would count towards their service fee if/when I make an application through them later.” -1st 4 Immigration. Basically I don’t want to comment much on this, despite I think they overcharge in comparison to others who charge only £25.
...I even asked about them previously in this form to get an idea you may check my post here. ...
...Now things you should do if your case is not straightforward and requires lawyer:
1- Most importantly, try to be as honest as possible with yourself and describe your case as accurate as possible.
2- Ask people around you or who had similar experience if they recommend some good lawyers/ solicitors with a good truck of success.
3- Do not accept what the first lawyer tells you, they might be incompetent if they say “It is not possible” or they might fool you if they just want your money, and be sure to seek the opinion of many lawyers.
4- Ensure a good communication with lawyers when you talk to them, ask them if you have any queries or you want clarifications (sometimes they don’t reveal their plans)
5- Try to get all your documents ready including your life in the UK test, a clear form of you absence and travel dates, and is possible get your SAR (Subject Access Requests) will help you a lot if you are unclear about your travel dates. Just to note that the home office have all your data in details of at least the last 5 years including destination, time, travel date and so forth, that’s what I saw in mine.
6- When you decide the lawyer you want to go with, be as honest and clear with him/her, don’t hide anything, tell him/her about your past convictions, about anything you have, so they know how to handle your case.
7- Finally if you are short in fund, negotiate the price or ask them politely for discounted price, they usually do it...
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