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Peju Ojemuyiwa
Founder | UK Immigration & Settlement Strategist | IAA Level 3 Immigration Adviser
Peju founded MichelleBelle in 2008. Her work spans corporate immigration and sponsor compliance, complex individual matters, and the strategic planning that sits between an immigration decision and the life it is meant to support.
Biography
Peju established MichelleBelle in 2008 and has practised through successive changes to the UK immigration system, including the introduction and replacement of the tiered points-based routes and the sponsorship regime that governs employers today.
Her practice has developed along two lines that most advisers keep separate. On the corporate side she works with employers on sponsor licensing, compliance systems and the duties that continue long after a licence is granted. On the private side she advises individuals and families on route decisions, settlement and matters that have become complicated. Holding both perspectives is what allows her to tell a sponsored worker what their employer’s position means for them, and an employer what their decisions mean for the people they sponsor.
Alongside casework, Peju has built and led immigration functions, developed immigration practice and trained advisers. That work informs the Academy, MichelleBelle’s adviser development platform.
Regulatory credentials
Authorised at IAA Level 3 by the Immigration Advice Authority, the level at which more complex immigration matters may be handled within the regulatory framework.
Practising through MichelleBelle Limited, IAA registration F201800082.
Professional experience
Sponsor licensing
Advising employers on licence readiness, key personnel and applications.
Sponsor compliance
Building and testing the systems that hold up when UKVI examines them.
Skilled Worker sponsorship
Role eligibility, CoS assignment and immigration onboarding.
Settlement
ILR, long residence and the qualifying periods behind them.
Complex immigration matters
Refusals, evidential gaps and unusual factual histories.
Immigration strategy
Route decisions taken against career, family and business plans.
Immigration practice development
Designing how immigration work is delivered and governed.
Adviser training
Developing immigration advisers through practical, case-based work.
Leading immigration functions
Building and running immigration teams inside organisations.
Thought leadership
Peju’s writing examines the relationship between immigration policy and the decisions people actually have to make: how sponsorship risk sits with employers, how career moves interact with settlement, and why so many immigration decisions end up being taken under time pressure that could have been avoided.
Migrants cannot control every change in the immigration system, but they can strategically build options so they are not forced to make important decisions under pressure.
Recurring themes
- Immigration policy
- Settlement
- Career
- Family
- Risk
- Optionality
- Employer sponsorship
- Long-term migrant planning
- Decisions under pressure
Published articles are archived in Insights. Peju’s writing also appears on LinkedIn.
What clients say about working with Peju
A pleasure to work with
Peju offered excellent advice and looped together the whole process given the number of people involved and the implications and challenges we crossed to ensure that we adequately covered the requirements for sponsorship of overseas national. The timeline was accurate and we achieved our resourcing goal successfully.
Always professional
Olapeju supported our Relocations Department on an interim basis through a period of important transition. As well as ensuring we continued to supply our services in an efficient and compliant manner, Peju recommended and implemented important improvements to our processes.
I can highly recommend
Following the appointment of our new Operations Manager from New Zealand, Peju was able to help our business to obtain a 3 year work permit for her. Peju took us through the complete process of becoming a category A license holder to the work permit application itself and issuing a COS. This was done with plenty of support and direction with minimal fuss.
Utterly trustworthy and reliable
Peju will always make sure that any course of action she is recommending to a client is the right one and all options are fully researched and checked. I have always found Peju to be utterly trustworthy and reliable and can work completely autonomously which was essential as a remote manager.
Seamless, timely and stress-free
I will always recommend the services of MichelleBelle. Highly reliable in immigration processing — they make the entire process seem seamless, timely and stress-free, with clear and consistent feedback. They handled my sponsorship visa application efficiently and professionally. Special thanks to Lara for guiding me through every requirement with exceptional professionalism.
The level of support was top tier
Working with MichelleBelle has been an absolute pleasure. From the very beginning, the team demonstrated remarkable professionalism, transparency, and dedication. They took time to understand my circumstances and provided clear, honest guidance at every stage. From starting my application 'from scratch' to the successful arrival of my eVisa, the level of support I received was top tier.
Discuss your matter with Peju.
Consultations are booked directly. Corporate and general enquiries come through the contact page.