Eastgate Chambers

05/01/2026

Our Wrexham Office is open despite the heavy snow in North Wales, ❄️☃️. Happy New Year all. Please do not attend the office without an appointment as the shared reception is unmanned. Tel 01978447300 or Email [email protected]

24/12/2025

Our offices are now closed until the New Year.
We reopen on Monday 5th January 2026. In the meantime;
🎄Emails will be checked from 29th December & replied to in due course ✅
☃️ Any urgent decisions or Court directions will be relayed to clients ✅
🚔 Duty Solicitors for Wrexham area 26th & 30th December ✅
🧑‍⚖️ Court commitments met on 2nd January✅
🎅SEASONS GREETINGS🤶
TO ALL OUR CLIENTS, COLLEAGUES,
FRIENDS & THOSE WE CALL FAMILY

04/11/2025

Phone lines are currently down in our Wrexham office due to a power cut as below

26/09/2025

Our sister organisation Chris Clark Solicitors are experiencing a fault with their phone lines due to an external problem with BT. Please telephone their Cannock office until this is resolved thanks 01543 399071

15/07/2025

Whilst the Red Dragons tour 🇦🇺, we are OPEN to new Immigration clients who want to make Wales their home, contact our friendly team in Wrexham ☎️ 01978447300 📨 [email protected] 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

24/03/2025

*Visa fees increase*

Please note that as of 9/4/25 UK visa fees are set to increase. This will include

Further leave to remain £1258 to £1321
Indefinite leave to remain £2885 to £3029
Citizenship £1630 to £1735

30/12/2024

As 2024 draws to a close, a reminder that our Wrexham Office is still closed until Monday 6th January. Simon Clark is monitoring E-mails & will contact clients if anything urgent arises. Please Email any enquiries in the meantime & patiently await a reply. Thank you 😊

Our Wrexham Office is now closed until 6th January but Emails will be checked intermittently throughout the Christmas & New Year holidays for any urgent matters.
Our Stafford Office closes on Christmas Eve at lunch time & reopens 2nd January.

21/12/2024

Our Wrexham Office is now closed until 6th January but Emails will be checked intermittently throughout the Christmas & New Year holidays for any urgent matters.
Our Stafford Office closes on Christmas Eve at lunch time & reopens 2nd January.

09/12/2024

*SYRIA UPDATE*
*update to below at 17:30hrs on 09/12/24*
- HOME OFFICE SUSPENDS DECISION MAKING ON ASYLUM CLAIMS FROM SYRIAN NATIONALS
- Following the fall of the Assad regime in Syria many Syrians in the UK will currently be celebrating but also some may be worried about what this now means for their right to remain in the UK.
- We are waiting for updated guidance from the Home Office & advice from ILPA. It is too early to say what changes the Home Office will make.
- If you have Refugee Status & are applying for Settlement the existing guidance is in the photo. You may still be considered to be at risk in Syria during this uncertain time.
- As there is no Government in Syria the Home Office continues to not have any agreement to return Syrian nationals.
- If you have claimed Asylum in the UK & are waiting for an interview or a decision we do not know yet if there will be a pause in decision making. Because of the uncertainty of the situation in Syria you may have an additional reason for claiming Asylum in the UK
- Home Office Country Guidance continues to state "the general humanitarian situation in Syria is so severe that there are substantial grounds for believing that there is a real risk of serious harm because conditions amount to torture or inhuman or degrading treatment as defined in paragraphs 339C & 339CA(iii) of the Immigration Rules/Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights"
- We do not anticipate this guidance changing immediately but it could be withdraw at any time if the humanitarian situation in Syria improves but it is widely believed that this may take some time to happen until free & fair democratic elections have been held, there is a new Government in power & a response from the international community to the need for aid/humanitarian assistance.
- In due course there will be a new country guidance Case Law to replace the assessment in KB (2012) that found "in the context of the extremely high level of human rights abuses currently occuring in Syria, a regime that appears increasingly concerned to crush any sign of resistance, it is likely that a failed asylum seeker or forced returnee would, in general, on arrival face a real risk of arrest and dentention and of serious mistreatment... that is sufficient to qualify for refugee protection".
- If you already hold Refugee Status or have obtained Settlement your status is unchanged.
- If you are now considering returning to Syria & you have not been granted Settlement yet, you are free to do so but you will most likely not be granted Settlement in the UK.
- If you are waiting for a decision on your Asylum claim & now want to withdraw your claim & apply for Voluntary Return to Syria, please contact us if you are an existing client, if not your Immigration Lawyer or the Home Office
- We will provide further updates as we learn of any developments/changes from the Home Office.

15/02/2024

If you're a non UK national in the UK on a spouse or partner visa, female or male, contact us or Bawso for help to get out of this kind of situation