Andrew Jones, Solicitor
“Andrew Jones and the team at Wesley Gryk Solicitors provide first class service and I highly recommend if you need legal advice/assistance with UK immigration. They make a complicated process very easy to navigate and I’m very impressed and happy with their service and the results.” – Client
“Wesley Gryk Solicitors have dealt with my two children’s complex case, and now they will be joining me thanks to Andrew Jones. Thank you for being so professional, ready, active and going the extra mile for me. Thank you, thank you, thank you. It still hasn’t sunk in. Thank you Andrew.” – Client
“I truly recommend Wesley Gryk Solicitors for their highly knowledgeable staff on tough immigration cases. I was grateful with the professional service of Andrew Jones. Andrew worked extremely hard at short notice to study and research my complex immigration history background. A month later, he had shared the great news that my naturalisation case was successful. It was so unbelievable to me!” – Client
Andrew is a solicitor at Wesley Gryk Solicitors LLP who joined the firm in January 2019. Andrew’s practice covers a wide range of immigration, asylum and nationality matters.
Andrew regularly assists clients to make applications for parents and partners applying to enter or extend their stay in the United Kingdom. He also has experience with applications for asylum, British citizenship for adults and children and status under the EU Settlement Scheme. Andrew successfully challenges Home Office decisions in the Immigration and Asylum Tribunals and by judicial review.
Recent work and notable cases
- Won appeal against a Home Office decision in which the client was wrongly accused of deceiving the Home Office by relying on a fraudulent English language test
- Successfully applied for naturalisation for clients with excessive absences or periods of overstaying in the past
- Won appeal for an LGBT Chinese client, satisfying the Judge that there were “insurmountable obstacles” to his family life continuing in China with his British partner
- Applied for judicial review for a client whose application for indefinite leave to remain was wrongly refused due to an allegation of falsely declaring his earnings to HMRC; assisted the client to reply to the subsequent ‘Minded to Refuse’ notice before he was eventually granted indefinite leave to remain
- Assisted clients to successfully apply for endorsements under the Global Talent scheme, especially from Arts Council England
- Assisted clients in securing indefinite leave to remain, despite applying after their previous period of leave had expired.
- Successfully obtained visas for spouses and fiancées of British citizens
- Assisted European citizens and their family members in applying for settlement and naturalising as British before Brexit
Education and experience
- Trained and qualified as a solicitor at Thompson & Co Solicitors, 2015-2018
- University of Law, LPC with distinction, 2014-2015
- University of Nottingham, LLM Criminal Justice with distinction, 2013-2014
- University of Nottingham, LLB Law with American Law, 2:1, 2009-2013
“Andrew Jones and the team at Wesley Gryk Solicitors provide first class service and I highly recommend if you need legal advice/assistance with UK immigration. They make a complicated process very easy to navigate and I’m very impressed and happy with their service and the results.” – Client
“Wesley Gryk Solicitors have dealt with my two children’s complex case, and now they will be joining me thanks to Andrew Jones. Thank you for being so professional, ready, active and going the extra mile for me. Thank you, thank you, thank you. It still hasn’t sunk in. Thank you Andrew.” – Client
“I truly recommend Wesley Gryk Solicitors for their highly knowledgeable staff on tough immigration cases. I was grateful with the professional service of Andrew Jones. Andrew worked extremely hard at short notice to study and research my complex immigration history background. A month later, he had shared the great news that my naturalisation case was successful. It was so unbelievable to me!” – Client
