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 assists clients of all backgrounds in applications under the Immigration Rules, outside of the Immigration Rules and in accordance with EU law. Andrew has expertise in making applications for parents and partners applying to enter or extend their stay in the United Kingdom. He also has particular experience assisting European nationals and their family members to enforce and protect their freedom of movement rights. Andrew joined Wesley Gryk Solicitors LLP from a legal aid firm, where he developed a successful practice in asylum applications, assisting clients in immigration detention and challenging 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 accused of deceiving the Home Office by relying on a fraudulent English language test
- Successfully applied for naturalisation for a British Overseas Citizen who had long periods of overstaying in his immigration history
- 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
- Secured British passports for the Somalia-born children of a British citizen
- Successfully applied for a Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) visa for client whose first application made by herself was refused
- Secured naturalisation for a client with excessive absences
- Assisted a client in securing indefinite leave to remain, despite applying after his previous period of leave 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
