Amar Ali

Amar is a supervising solicitor and the founder of Reiss Edwards Solicitors. He is the driving force behind the success of the firm, a firm renowned for its high client satisfaction and outstanding results.

Amar started his legal career as an Immigration Advisor with the Office of Immigration Services Commissioner (the OISC) after completing his LLB law degree with First-Class Honors. Following on, he became in house advocate dealing with complex UK immigration appeals before the First Tier and Upper Tribunal. This experience inspired Amar to train further as a Barrister, helping him to balance his analytical obsession with his passion for clarity when communicating. He is now a Solicitor of England and Wales since 2013 and has strategically propelled Reiss Edwards Solicitors as a leading Immigration Law Firm.

Amar regularly presents on matters relating to the Points Based System and Business Immigration. He also writes regularly on the latest immigration rules, which has resulted in him being featured as an author in Lexis Nexis and a reference point for an article published by Cambridge University Press. He is also currently cited by various directories as one of the top immigration Solicitors in London.

With Amar’s leadership, Reiss Edwards has gone on to represent over 6000 clients ranging from SME’s, Investors, the world’s largest tech corporations and individual private clients.

Amar oversees the majority of casestaken on, some examples in the last 12 months include:

1. Over-turning suspensions of Sponsor Licences for Tier 2 Sponsors;
2. Strategic guidance on Samsung compliance and visa needs;
3. Discretionary registration applications for children to become British nationals on the basis of adoption;
4. Judicial Review proceedings challenging the reliability of the Home Office’s Interview Records leading to the refusal of a visitor visa;
5. The processing of a child’s PBS dependant extension application from outside the UK whilst the remaining family members and main applicant applied from within the UK.

Amar’s vision is one that places great emphasis on technology to drive accuracy, competence and efficiency. This ethos also applies to how the firm works internally, utilizing the best systems to create efficiency for the benefit of both clients and employees.

In less than 5 years, Amar has grown Reiss Edwards from him being its sole practitioner, to a team of 20 making the firm one of the largest immigration only practices’ in the UK. He has been described by his clients and peers as an outstanding legal mind, able to articulate complicated issues with an air of simplicity.