Peter was educated in Scotland, graduating with a Degree in Scottish Law from the University of Dundee and was admitted as Solicitor in English Law in 1980.
Peter started his career in Commercial and General Practice. This involved, for some years, running the foreign offices based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Washington DC, of the London firm in which he was employed and where he rose to the position of partner.
In 1992 he moved to a specialist immigration firm in London (Gulbenkian Harris Andonian) undertaking among other things all aspects of business, corporate and personal immigration, asylum and nationality matters, and becoming a partner in 1994.
In a further career move he joined Sookias & Sookias in May 2005 to continue to specialise in all aspects of personal and business Immigration, Nationality and Asylum law and applications, and Human Rights Law; including immigration Appeals before the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal. This includes work permits (Tier 2), intra Company transfers (Tier 2), investors*, business persons* and persons of independent means, highly skilled migrants (HSMP)* and innovators*, sole representatives, students (Tier 4), EU family permits and residence, ministers of religion (Tier 2), missionaries and members of religious orders, spouse and unmarried partner applications.
Those categories marked “*” will be deleted on or after 30 June 2008 and be dealt with under the new Points Based System arrangements currently being introduced by the government. Peter is a member of the Immigration Law Practitioners Association