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Overview
Gintare Plistkovaite is a London-based Legal Director in the Citizenship & Immigration team with over 10 years’ experience advising on UK immigration and nationality law. She specialises in complex and often highly discretionary immigration matters for high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals, including British citizenship, settlement, immigration routes for investors, global talent, innovators and entrepreneurs, and applications under the EU Settlement Scheme. She also has extensive experience advising on the Family and Private life routes, and UK visitor applications.
Gintare is known for her strategic, client-focused, and solutions-driven approach, combining technical immigration expertise with experience in contentious litigation, judicial review and human rights claims including.
She is fluent in Lithuanian, English and Russian.
Expertise
Gintare specialises in:
- British citizenship and nationality applications
- Settlement and extension applications across a range of immigration categories
- Immigration matters for high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals
- Applications for former Tier 1 Investors, Entrepreneurs and Sole Representatives of Overseas Businesses
- UK visit visa and travel document applications
- Applications under the EU Settlement Scheme
- Human rights and international protection claims
- Judicial review proceedings and immigration-related litigation
- Complex personal immigration matters
- Strategic immigration planning and advisory services for international clients
Qualifications & Accreditations
Gintare developed her specialist expertise while working at a leading London immigration law firm, where she spent more than seven years advising on both personal immigration and contentious litigation matters. She joined Payne Hicks Beach as a Legal Director and is recognised by Legal 500 as a leading practitioner across multiple immigration disciplines.
Awards & Accolades
- Legal 500 UK 2026 – Ranked as a Leading Associate for Immigration: Business.
- Legal 500 UK 2026 – Ranked as a Leading Associate for Immigration: Human Rights, Appeals.
- Legal 500 UK 2026 – Ranked as a Leading Associate for Immigration: Personal.Legal 500 UK 2025 – Ranked as a Leading Associate for Immigration: Business.
- Legal 500 UK 2025 – Ranked as a Leading Associate for Immigration: Human Rights, Appeals.
- Legal 500 UK 2025 – Ranked as a Leading Associate for Immigration: Personal.
- Legal 500 – Previously recognised as a Rising Star in Immigration.
Gintare has been ranked as a Rising Star in Legal 500
