Nathan Stevens Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Providing high quality immigration advice to vulnerable migrants through the subregional immigration advice project.Supervising a team of immigration caseworkers providing assistance to vulnerable homeless migrants across 5 NE London boroughs. Providing second tier advice and training to homelessness sector colleagues in immigration law.Coordinating project including reporting to project funders and partners and monitoring and evaluation. Part of Praxis’s advice management team, working with colleagues on wider company policy and strategy matters.

London, United Kingdom

Providing immigration and asylum advice. Specialising in asylum law, removal and deportation matters, unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, European law and human rights applications.

Balham

Working in public law, litigation and specialising in asylum and immigration law. Gaining experience in unlawful detention matters and judicial reviews, working alongside barristers in order to hold Home Office decision makers to account. Continuing to work on a large and diverse caseload of asylum and immigration matters, including working on high profile cases which garnered mainstream national media attention.

London, United Kingdom

Representing clients in all types of immigration matters, with a particular focus on asylum applications and appeals before the First-Tier and Upper Tribunals. Conducting a large and varied caseload of asylum and immigration matters including deportation matters, Article 8 family life applications and appeals and detention matters.Particular expertise and interest in representing unaccompanied asylum-seeking children including attending asylum interviews and representing children in appeals before the Tribunals.Advanced knowledge in asylum applications from a wide range of countries including Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Albania, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Bangladesh, Gambia, DR Congo, Kuwait and Angola.Ability to communicate clearly and sensitively with vulnerable clients including victims of torture and trafficking.

Dalston, London

Handling a large caseload of primarily legal aid asylum and immigration cases, with a focus on asylum appeals and unaccompanied minor asylum cases. Conducting detention centre advice surgeries at Immigration Removal Centres and preparing and presenting bail applications and deportation appeals.Working alongside Social Services departments in order to properly represent unaccompanied children throughout the asylum process.Providing high quality representation in all areas of immigration law from entry clearance applications to settlement applications and appeals.

London

Level 2 IAAS accredited immigration caseworker managing a large and diverse caseload including asylum applications and appeals before the First-Tier Tribunal, Tier 4 student applications, refugee family reunion, dependant and spouse visa applications, European Economic Area applications and fresh claims. Experience of billing time to a high target and working individually, managing a growing caseload including urgent matters as well as handling legacy cases.Strong experience drafting detailed witness statements for the purposes of both asylum and immigration applications and appeals. Excellent drafting experience having prepared representations in support of family reunion applications, asylum claims where necessary and further submissions in support of asylum and human rights claims.Drafting skeleton arguments for the purposes of the Asylum and Immigration Chamber of the First-Tier Tribunal and conducting legal research into background country situations, preparing bundles of objective evidence.

Managing a large caseload of simple immigration matters, including family reunion, extension of leave applications, certificate of approval for marriage cases, fresh claims, Tier 4 student applications and applications for residence permits for European citizens and their family members.Assisting senior caseworkers with asylum and immigration appeals, including taking instructions from clients in detention and in immigration removal centres, preparing witness statements, liaising with the Home Office and the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, instructing country and medical experts and drafting detailed client care letters advising clients of their current situation.Giving advice to walk-in clients at weekly advice surgeries and seeing clientsfor initial appointments and follow-up bail and deportation work in detention centres and immigration removal centres.Excellent experience in dealing with the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal and the Home Office's bureaucracy, deadlines and procedures and a strong practical understanding of the UK visa application process.Conducting family reunion applications for clients from throughout the world including from entry clearance posts such as Kampala, Uganda; Freetown, Sierra Leone; Islamabad, Pakistan; Johannesburg, South Africa and Harare, Zimbabwe.Drafting representations requesting Temporary Admission and Chief Immigration Officer bail be granted for clients in detention and immigration removal centres.Interviewing vulnerable clients including trafficking victims, minors, torture victims and destitute failed asylum seekers and assisting them in making immigration applications and applications for welfare support through the Asylum Support Service where necessary.

During my university and college holidays, I was an administrator at Credit Suisse Fund Administration Limited where I assisted the Legal & Compliance department.

Legal Practice Course, Distinction

Part-time Legal Practice Course and LLM

Bvc, Law

Activities and Societies: Leader of the Lawyer's Christian Fellowship group College of Law negotiation competitionModules taken: Criminal.

Llb, Law

Activities and Societies: Member of the University of Birmingham athletics club - winning a silver medal in the 4x400m relay.