Roberta is a partner in our Immigration, Asylum and Nationality team. She has been advising on immigration matters since 2007. She advises on all areas of immigration, asylum and nationality law.
Roberta has considerable in-depth experience with complex family-based applications and applications made on human rights grounds. Her broad practice includes advising partners, dependent relatives, and other family members on nationality and passport issues. Roberta has a particular interest in advising on asylum claims and applications made on physical or mental health grounds. She also acts on deportation cases, including applications to revoke deportation orders and on appeal.
Roberta also advises on business immigration, providing advice to both employees and businesses. She also regularly provides and post-Brexit advice on the EU Settlement Scheme.
Roberta is experienced in representing clients at the application stage and at appeal in the First Tier and Upper Tribunal and in the higher courts, including the Court of Appeal. She also regularly represents clients in judicial review proceedings. Roberta has also obtained significant damages on behalf of people unlawfully detained by the Home Office.
She provides expert reports on immigration matters for the family court and is regularly instructed by local authorities in relation to children in their care, advising on a range of issues including immigration and citizenship, along with trafficking issues.
Recent directory and client quotes
Chambers and Partners UK 2025
- Roberta is ranked Band 3 in Immigration: Human Rights, Asylum & Deportation & Immigration: Personal.
- “Her sensitivity to the highly personal nature of the matter informed her work in a way that has made the process much less distressing than it could have been.”
- “She has worked tirelessly to provide an extremely high quality of advice and service to a group of very vulnerable people in a compassionate yet professional way.”
- “Her sensitivity and careful management of my case has been excellent.”
- “Roberta has gone above and beyond my expectations and seen me through such anxious times.”
- “Roberta is wonderful and is really good with vulnerable clients.”
Legal 500 UK 2025
- Roberta is listed as a “Next Generation Partner” in Immigration, Immigration: Human Rights & Immigration: Personal.
Chambers and Partners UK 2024
- Roberta was ranked Band 3 in Immigration: Human Rights, Asylum and Deportation & Immigration: Personal.
- “I can’t speak highly enough of Roberta. She combines ability, dependability and client empathy with professional and organisational thoroughness.”
- “She is amazing. She is a very talented and intelligent solicitor.”
- “Roberta Haslam is a top solicitor who has succeeded in handling my case with compassion, understanding and swiftness. She is thoroughly knowledgeable in her field.”
- “Roberta is phenomenal. She worked passionately and tirelessly.”
- “Roberta demonstrates a really great high level of written work. She is massively loyal and warm to clients.”
Legal 500 2024
- Roberta was featured as a ‘Next Generation Partner’ in the Immigration: human rights, appeals & overstay section.
- “Roberta Haslam has learned from the best, and so demonstrates superb client commitment and compassion in all she does.”
- “Roberta Haslam is a force to be reckoned with. She is always on top of the case, and always listens to your needs. She is also very compassionate and considerate towards the emotional well being of client.”
What clients say
Roberta Haslam is a most outstanding solicitor. Her knowledge of the relevant legislation and the technical aspects of her job is very thorough, but importantly she also possesses an incredibly caring and helpful manner of communicating with her clients and demonstrates exquisite sensitivity, thoughtfulness and care in her work
– Bindmans LLP client
Professional memberships
- Roberta is a member of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association
Education and career
- Before entering the legal profession Roberta studied for a BA (Hons) in Social Anthropology and Development at the University of Sussex
- She passed her Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course at the College of Law with distinction
- Roberta joined Bindmans in 2007 and qualified as a solicitor in March 2010
- Law Society IAAS Accredited Supervisor and Senior Caseworker
