Tamer Ulay

Tamer is a senior caseworker with more than 20 years' experience of UK and EU immigration law. He joined Garth Coates Solicitors in 2009, 17 years ago, after running his own consultancy advising on EU Golden Visa and second citizenship programmes, and he has been a cornerstone of the team ever since.

He knows the Ankara Agreement, the association agreement between the EU and Turkey, in depth. Over the years he has helped a great many Turkish businesspeople, workers and their families to build their lives in the UK, from first applications under the agreement through extensions to settlement. Clients value being advised in their own language by someone who understands both their situation and the rules in detail.

Tamer also handles sponsor licence applications and compliance, Skilled Worker and self-sponsorship cases. He is known in the firm for the care he puts into challenging refusals: he prepares appeals, pre-action letters and judicial review claims with thorough evidence and close attention to the law, and his work has helped turn around many refusal decisions.

For internationally mobile families and investors, he also advises on Golden Visa and second citizenship programmes, drawing on his years running his own consultancy.

Notable cases

Tamer has helped overturn important refusal decisions, including the Cerktir and Cicekli cases and many other self-sponsorship and Turkish Businessperson (ECAA) refusals.