Relocation services and immigration agencies

Immigration agencies

Immigration agencies help with more of the technical legal and financial stuff, like applying for visas and resolving international tax dilemmas. You definitely don't need an immigration agency if your situation is simple: it's not very difficult to apply for a visa or passport yourself (it's just time consuming). 

Global

• Sable International

South Africans

• BIC-Immigration. A firm which handles a number of emigration services for South Africans, including visa applications. They gave me very good advice about a complex visa situation. 

• Visabox

• Raffin Attorneys

• Nexus Visas

• MoveUp. They offer a free assessment where you can check your eligibility for UK visas or passports, which could be a helpful way to begin your journey before you're ready to pay.

Relocation Services

Relocation services handle more of the "soft admin" for you, stuff like figuring out where in the UK to live and identifying a good school (you might also want to speak to an expert education consultant). If you can afford to pay for a fully managed move, these agencies can even take care of details like stocking the fridge of your new home before you arrive. These services are not cheap, but some of them do offer telephone consultations that allow you to ask specific questions.

Three such services are:

• Soft Landings 

• Simply London Relocations

• Graebel