Preventing deportation can be a life-saving measure, but isn’t enough
Last week, campaigners successfully prevented the forced removal of Samim Bigzad from the UK on a Turkish Airways flight – Samim was being sent against… Read more »
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Afghanistan: Situation of young male ‘Westernised’ returnees to Kabul
Endorsed and peer-reviewed by the Asylum Research Consultancy (ARC) and the Dutch Council for Refugees, Asylos has compiled a new COI research report on the situation… Read more »
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Asylum, finally, for Aderonke
Our dear friend Aderonke Apata has FINALLY been granted refugee status, after years of fighting for justice. All along the way, she has fought for… Read more »
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Right to Remain annual gathering: Liverpool, 9 September
Join Right to Remain at our 2017 annual national gathering, where we will be bringing together brilliant people from across the UK to share ideas,… Read more »
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Preparing for the asylum interview – from those who have been there
Over the years of working with people going through the asylum and immigration system, we have seen how disastrously unprepared most people are going into their asylum substantive interview.
This is one of the reasons we produce the Right to Remain Toolkit, and why we’re working with a new group in Sheffield to help new asylum-seekers prepare for their asylum interview.
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New resource from NACCOM on hosting asylum seekers, refugees and other migrants
The no accommodation network NACCOM has launched a Hosting Toolkit, a comprehensive resource for hosting schemes that accommodate destitute asylum seekers, refugees and other migrants. Read the Hosting… Read more »
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These Walls Must Fall: Sheffield
We were delighted to take part in Sheffield’s fabulous Migration Matters festival last week. We ran a two-part workshop, looking firstly at navigating the UK’s… Read more »
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Amid Europe’s deafening silence on human rights abuses, we’re here to speak out
By Alice Lucas @RefugeeData Alice is the Senior Programme Officer at the Refugee Rights Data Project (RRDP), which is dedicated to documenting human rights violations against refugees… Read more »
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Refusal of entry to the UK and re-entry bans
Under the immigration rules, there are “general grounds” under which an application to enter the UK can be refused.
In addition to the general grounds of refusal, re-entry bans are applied to certain categories of people who breached immigration law in certain ways in a previous attempt to enter or stay in the UK.
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Brexit and EEA nationals’ right to remain in the UK
Since the Brexit referendum we have, not surprisingly, been contacted by lots of people asking about the situation for European nationals and their families.
It’s been a difficult question to answer because there’s still so much uncertainty about what the legal situation will be after Brexit – it will depend on negotiations and perhaps new agreements with EEA states.
There have, however, been some really useful resources put out to explain the current situation, what may change, and what people can do to be in the strongest position possible when the UK leaves the European Union.
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Video: Preparing for the asylum interview
In Sheffield every month, Right to Remain runs information sessions with the Early Asylum Support group, to help newly arrived asylum seekers to prepare for… Read more »
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This is what solidarity sounds like.
Surviving the UK’s asylum/immigration system isn’t easy. Whether people are granted the right to remain or not, many people are scarred by the experience of… Read more »
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