Candour
We tell you what we would tell a friend, including when the honest answer is "not yet" or "not this route".
About Meridian
People who do this for a living, and care how it ends.
We are a regulated team of advisers, former case officers and caseworkers who believe immigration advice should be candid, organised and human.
Our story
Started at a kitchen table, still run with the same rules.
Amara Whitfield and Tomas Reyes spent a combined twenty-two years inside immigration departments before they opened Meridian in 2009. They had seen how many strong applicants were refused for avoidable reasons: a missing document, a badly timed submission, advice that was optimistic rather than accurate.
So they set three rules that every adviser here still follows. Tell clients the truth about their chances. File nothing until it is ready. Stay on the case until the decision arrives.
Today forty regulated advisers work across three offices and speak more than twenty languages, but you will still deal with one person who knows your file by heart.
15Years of regulated practice
12,400+Applications approved
40Licensed advisers and caseworkers
96%Approval rate on prepared files
What we stand for
Four principles behind every file.
They are written on the wall of every office, and they shape how we hire, train and price our work.
Craft
Applications are built like legal briefs: structured, evidenced and checked twice by a second adviser.
Continuity
One named adviser owns your file from the first call to the final decision. No hand-offs, no repeated stories.
Care
Moving country is among the biggest decisions of a life. We keep the process calm, clear and kind.
Our journey
Fifteen years, five turning points.
2009
Meridian opens with two advisers and a focus on skilled migration to Canada.
2013
Second office opens and the UK practice launches with a dedicated spouse visa team.
2017
The appeals unit is founded after a surge in refusals caused by changing evidence rules.
2021
Remote-first assessments and an encrypted client portal replace paper files.
2025
The corporate mobility desk opens in the Gulf, relocating whole teams in a single quarter.
Leadership
The advisers behind your file.
Senior practitioners lead every practice area and review every complex application personally.
Accountability
Standards you can check.
Regulated practiceAuthorised to give advice
Protected client fundsHeld in segregated accounts
Encrypted portalSecure document storage
Complaints processIndependent review available