Jenni Whitaker

Jenni is a solicitor in our Immigration, Asylum and Nationality team.

She advises on a wide range of immigration matters for both private and publicly funded clients.

Jenni advises on visa applications for entry clearance and leave to remain for family members, visitors, students, creatives applying under the Global Talent scheme and for skilled workers. She has a particular interest in immigration applications for international sportspeople and their family members.

Jenni also advises on a wide range of asylum matters including asylum applications and resulting appeals and judicial reviews, settlement applications for those with refugee status and for victims of domestic violence and leave to remain applications based on private and family life.

She has extensive experience in making complex applications for leave to enter the UK outside the Immigration Rules and in acting in complex deportation and human rights appeals.

Jenni also advises on applications to register and naturalise as a British citizen, both for children and adults.

She previously worked in the Public Law and Human Rights team, where she assisted with a range of complex public law judicial reviews and civil claims. In particular, Jenni is experienced assisting in cases at the intersection of public law and immigration, such as challenges to age assessments of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children by local authorities and claims for damages for those who have been unlawfully detained by the Home Office.

Before joining Bindmans, she was the coordinator of the Human Rights Observers project, a civil society group in northern France which documents and challenges human rights violations experienced by migrants at the UK-France border. Jenni also volunteered at the Helen Bamber Foundation, supporting victims of trafficking and torture.