Irene Serukenya Kamya

Irene is tri-qualified, admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales, the Republic of Ireland and Scotland, and brings a depth of institutional immigration experience that few practitioners anywhere can match.

Her specialism is immigration in the education sector. She has worked in-house at the University of Sussex and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and currently contributes in-house at King's College London, advising universities on sponsor licence management, CAS and academic sponsorship, Global Talent endorsement and international talent strategy. She has prepared public bodies for UKVI compliance audits, including the London Borough of Sutton, where she also delivered Skilled Worker visas under the points-based system.

Before joining Lawyery she served as Immigration Knowledge Officer at Charles Russell Speechlys and Taylor Rose MW, with earlier immigration roles including KPMG. That knowledge management background means her advice is not just experienced but systematically current, in a field where the rules change constantly.

Advocacy and community

Irene represents clients in immigration appeals before the First-tier and Upper Tribunals, and advises across visit visas, student visas, spouse entry and overstayer cases. She is deeply committed to access to justice for the African diaspora, and for the Ugandan community in particular, running immigration clinics and webinars, representing clients at tribunal, and appearing on community radio to explain the law to the people it affects.