Ciera McCartney, Solicitor
“Ciera McCartney is an associate as Wesley Gryk Solicitors and offers personal immigration support that includes post- Brexit visa advice, passport application support and Pre-Action Protocol letters” – Chambers 2024
“Wonderful service. Ciera was my representative. She was very helpful and made sure my application was sorted accordingly, and with that received wonderful results! I’m forever grateful and would highly recommend Wesley Gryk Solicitors. Thank you for your service !.” – Review Solicitors
“As a member of the LGBT+ community, being brown and in a situation where I was scared to settle with my partner in the UK, fearing of not being able to return to my home country, the lawyers, Ciera and Dimitri at WGS put my mind at ease, giving real examples and objectively making me look at the situation. I could not have asked for a more smooth, helpful and easy experience. I started my journey of settling in the UK with this firm and I am very happy it happened. As anxious and nerve wracking the experience is, I am so grateful I had a lawyer like Ciera to turn to, to ask and feel a bit of ease through the process.” – Review Solicitors
“We came across Wesley Gryk via the Legal 500 and Chambers 200 top law firm lists. Ciera at the firm recently guided my fiancée and I through a U.K. Marriage Visitor visa, applying from the U.S., which was approved in a matter of days. For ourselves it felt like a somewhat complicated and daunting application, but Ciera made it very straightforward and simple. We are thoroughly grateful for her professionalism, wisdom and kindness during the whole process, as well as her knowledge on exactly what was pertinent and what was unnecessary for the application – and for making herself available whenever needed. We have researched many immigration law firms, both in the U.K. and U.S., and have not come across one that dealt with the matter so well. Their fees are also very fair for a top firm. We would thoroughly recommend them. Thanks so again much to both Ciera and Caroline!” – Google Review
“I used this firm to help a family member (a EU Citizen) obtain settled status in the UK. The circumstances were complex and challenging and the solicitor from this firm was excellent. Professional, knowledgeable, compassionate, patient, tenacious and kind. The firm was also affordable! They had been recommended to me by a friend who needed help moving a family member from Australia to the UK who had had the same excellent experience. Highly recommended.” – Review Solicitors
Ciera is a solicitor at Wesley Gryk Solicitors LLP who joined the firm in June 2019 and qualified in September 2022. Ciera’s practice covers a wide range of immigration, asylum and nationality law.
In 2024, Ciera was recognised as an ‘Associate to Watch’ by the Chambers and Partners directory.
Ciera regularly assists clients to make applications to enter and remain in the UK on the basis of family and/or private life. She has prepared a number of successful applications for British nationality for both adults and children, including children born through surrogacy, and helped European nationals and their family members successfully apply for settled and pre-settled status, including after the June 2021 deadline. She has experience with judicial review challenges of visit visa refusals and other decisions that do not attract a right of appeal. Ciera also has experience with applications for asylum.
Membership and volunteering
- Member of the Immigration Law Practitioners Association (ILPA)
- Volunteer advisor at the Waterloo Legal Advice Centre
- Volunteer advisor with Rainbow Migration
Education and experience
- Legal Practice Course, London Metropolitan University
- LLB Law Senior Status, Queen Mary, University of London (2017-2019)
- MA International Relations, the University of Edinburgh (2013-2017)
“Wonderful service. Ciera was my representative. She was very helpful and made sure my application was sorted accordingly, and with that received wonderful results! I’m forever grateful and would highly recommend Wesley Gryk Solicitors. Thank you for your service !.” – Review Solicitors
“As a member of the LGBT+ community, being brown and in a situation where I was scared to settle with my partner in the UK, fearing of not being able to return to my home country, the lawyers, Ciera and Dimitri at WGS put my mind at ease, giving real examples and objectively making me look at the situation. I could not have asked for a more smooth, helpful and easy experience. I started my journey of settling in the UK with this firm and I am very happy it happened. As anxious and nerve wracking the experience is, I am so grateful I had a lawyer like Ciera to turn to, to ask and feel a bit of ease through the process.” – Review Solicitors
“We came across Wesley Gryk via the Legal 500 and Chambers 200 top law firm lists. Ciera at the firm recently guided my fiancée and I through a U.K. Marriage Visitor visa, applying from the U.S., which was approved in a matter of days. For ourselves it felt like a somewhat complicated and daunting application, but Ciera made it very straightforward and simple. We are thoroughly grateful for her professionalism, wisdom and kindness during the whole process, as well as her knowledge on exactly what was pertinent and what was unnecessary for the application – and for making herself available whenever needed. We have researched many immigration law firms, both in the U.K. and U.S., and have not come across one that dealt with the matter so well. Their fees are also very fair for a top firm. We would thoroughly recommend them. Thanks so again much to both Ciera and Caroline!” – Google Review
“I used this firm to help a family member (a EU Citizen) obtain settled status in the UK. The circumstances were complex and challenging and the solicitor from this firm was excellent. Professional, knowledgeable, compassionate, patient, tenacious and kind. The firm was also affordable! They had been recommended to me by a friend who needed help moving a family member from Australia to the UK who had had the same excellent experience. Highly recommended.” – Review Solicitors
