Abdo Rgeai

Partner

Tel: +44 (0) 20 8092 4138

Mob: +44 (0) 7900 987208

Email: abdo@trillium-legal.com

Abdo is an immigration lawyer with profound technical knowledge and over 17 years of experience dealing with complex cases and offering clients innovative, tailored solutions.

Abdo advises personal and business clients on all areas of immigration law, including complex discretionary cases, sponsor licencing and compliance, visitor visas, PBS, EU settlement, family migration, administrative reviews, permanent residency and British citizenship applications.

Abdo has extensive cross-cultural experience, having advised clients from all over the world, including Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, China and Russia. For many years, he has acted as a trusted advisor to many clients and their families who benefited vastly from the various investment migration opportunities.

Abdo is fluent English and Arabic.

Relevant Career Highlights

  • Chancery Solutions Ltd, London

  • The Chancery Partners LLP

  • Global Immigration, Ernst & Young

  • Office of Immigration Services Commissioner

Areas of Expertise

Complex & discretionary immigration applications

  • Complex & discretionary immigration applications

  • Challenging immigration decisions

  • Prevention of illegal working and challenging civil penalties

  • Personal, business and corporate immigration

  • Strategic guidance and management of sponsor licences

  • Managing large volume student visa projects for educational sponsors

  • Visitor & PBS entry clearance applications & extensions

  • EU settlement and indefinite leave to remain

  • Ancestry visas and right of abode applications

  • Family visas, including exceptional circumstances under ECHR

  • Naturalisation and registration as a British citizen

  • Investment migration and citizenships

  • Extensive experience in UKVI processes and decision making

Recent Experience

  • Advising personal clients on all aspects of immigration work, including visitor visas, PBS, family migration, EU settlement, ILR, and citizenship applications

  • Providing technical expertise and guidance to education providers, SMEs and FTSE 100

  • Preparing sponsor licence applications, managing immigration compliance and supporting business clients with Home Office audits

  • Reviewing and assessing immigration compliance policies, identifying potential areas of compliance vulnerability and developing corrective action plans

  • Delivering strategic and bespoke immigration solutions for high net-worth individuals and their families, enabling them to access an array of opportunities and secure residency and citizenships in Europe and across the globe

  • Preparing and filing complex applications, administrative review requests and representations to the Home Office

  • Managing the visa application process for a large worldwide international student population on behalf of UK-based education providers

Interesting Facts About Abdo

  • Abdo captained his high school’s football team all the way to the final of the province-wide football tournament