Ilda de Sousa

Practice Areas

Ilda continues to advise small through to large company clients in a wide variety of sectors on matters pertaining to UK Immigration law, as well as handling complex matters for individuals, British nationality applications, appeals, judicial reviews and Brexit related advice.

She’s also continued to develop her legal sector focus with many leading law firm clients. Her advice on the implications of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement has been sought by leading international firms. Alongside our regulatory team and EU co-counsel firms, Ilda is in the midst of releasing another successful podcast series on ‘fly in fly out’ issues within the EU for UK based lawyers.

She’s also passionate about the tech sector and has partnered with Global Tech Connect, an Alliance of UK-based Bilateral Start-up Programmes, focussing on their UK Immigration needs. She has spoken at a few tech related events, more recently at an AI-Bootcamp. Ilda has also been actively involved in the Entrepreneurs Network, a think tank for the ambitious owners of Britain’s fastest growing businesses and aspirational entrepreneurs. They have a network of over 10,000 entrepreneurs and are the Secretariat of the All Party Parliamentary group (APPG) for Entrepreneurship, which sits across the House of Commons and House of Lords. More recently, she has been appointed as an adviser to ensure that Parliament is kept up to date on what is needed to create and sustain the most favourable conditions for entrepreneurship, albeit from a UK Immigration perspective.

She is an Immigration and Nationality committee member of the International Association of Lawyers (UIA) and recently spoke at their annual conference focussing on the impact of the Illegal Migration Act. Ilda has also continued to be actively involved in the Immigration Legal Practitioners Association (ILPA), more specifically presenting training courses to other practitioners in respect of mergers and acquisitions with sponsors that hold a sponsor licence, to include a course relating to discretionary citizenship applications.

Career

Ilda is a South African qualified attorney and a British qualified solicitor who joined the firm in January 2010.

Professional Memberships

Ilda is a member of the Immigration Law Practitioners' Association (ILPA) and the International Bar Association (IBA).

Publications

Ilda has spoken on matters of immigration law for several distinguished organisations throughout her career. She has also written several articles on a variety of subjects relating to UK Immigration law.