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A guide to the UK immigration and asylum system

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      • About the Toolkit
      • Lawyers (solicitors) and legal advice
      • Legal support (taking action without giving legal advice)
      • How to support someone with the transition to eVisas
      • Evidence
      • Country of origin information
      • Destitution and Housing
      • Work Exploitation and Migrant Workers’ Rights
      • Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
      • Migrants affected by Domestic Abuse
      • No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF)

      Asylum

      • What is Asylum?
      • Entering the UK to claim asylum
      • What Happens When You Claim Asylum
      • Asylum Support: financial support and accommodation
      • Applying for Permission to Work (Asylum)
      • Asylum Screening (First) Interview
      • Streamlined Asylum Process
      • The Inadmissibility Rules
      • Asylum Substantive (Big) Interview
      • Home Office Asylum Decision (grant of status/refusal)
      • What happens when you get Refugee Status?
      • Preparing an Appeal After a Home Office Refusal
      • Your Appeal Hearing at the First-tier Tribunal
      • Asylum: if you are “appeal rights exhausted”
      • Appealing at the Upper Tribunal (after First-tier refusal)
      • Making a Fresh Claim (new evidence after the appeals stage)
      • Judicial Reviews: a legal challenge to how a decision has been made
      • Understanding the Different Asylum and Immigration Courts
      • Immigration Detention and Reporting
      • If You Are Facing Removal or Deportation from the UK

      Immigration

      • Visas: apply for permission to enter or stay in the UK
      • Applying to Stay in the UK Because You’ve Lived Here a Long Time
      • 10 year route to indefinite leave to remain
      • Applying to Stay in the UK Because You Have Children
      • Bringing an Adult Family Member to Live With You in the UK
      • Human rights: family and private life (Article 8)
      • EEA Nationals (also known as EU nationals)
      • After a Home Office refusal (immigration cases)
      • Preparing an Appeal After a Home Office Refusal
      • Your Appeal Hearing at the First-tier Tribunal
      • Appealing at the Upper Tribunal (after First-tier refusal)
      • Understanding the Different Asylum and Immigration Courts
      • Immigration Detention and Reporting
      • If You Are Facing Removal or Deportation from the UK

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Key Guides

  • Toolkit home
  • About the Toolkit
  • Lawyers (solicitors) and legal advice
  • Legal support (taking action without giving legal advice)
  • How to support someone with the transition to eVisas
  • Evidence
  • Country of origin information
  • Destitution and Housing
  • Work Exploitation and Migrant Workers’ Rights
  • Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
  • Migrants affected by Domestic Abuse
  • No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF)

Asylum

  • What is Asylum?
  • Entering the UK to claim asylum
  • What Happens When You Claim Asylum
  • Asylum Support: financial support and accommodation
  • Applying for Permission to Work (Asylum)
  • Asylum Screening (First) Interview
  • Streamlined Asylum Process
  • The Inadmissibility Rules
  • Asylum Substantive (Big) Interview
  • Home Office Asylum Decision (grant of status/refusal)
  • What happens when you get Refugee Status?
  • Preparing an Appeal After a Home Office Refusal
  • Your Appeal Hearing at the First-tier Tribunal
  • Asylum: if you are “appeal rights exhausted”
  • Appealing at the Upper Tribunal (after First-tier refusal)
  • Making a Fresh Claim (new evidence after the appeals stage)
  • Judicial Reviews: a legal challenge to how a decision has been made
  • Understanding the Different Asylum and Immigration Courts
  • Immigration Detention and Reporting
  • If You Are Facing Removal or Deportation from the UK

Immigration

  • Visas: apply for permission to enter or stay in the UK
  • Applying to Stay in the UK Because You’ve Lived Here a Long Time
  • 10 year route to indefinite leave to remain
  • Applying to Stay in the UK Because You Have Children
  • Bringing an Adult Family Member to Live With You in the UK
  • Human rights: family and private life (Article 8)
  • EEA Nationals (also known as EU nationals)
  • After a Home Office refusal (immigration cases)
  • Preparing an Appeal After a Home Office Refusal
  • Your Appeal Hearing at the First-tier Tribunal
  • Appealing at the Upper Tribunal (after First-tier refusal)
  • Understanding the Different Asylum and Immigration Courts
  • Immigration Detention and Reporting
  • If You Are Facing Removal or Deportation from the UK

 ¿Quées el asilo? (What is asylum – pdf)
 Lo qué pasa cuando solicitas asilo (Claim asylum – pdf)
La primera entrevista de asilo: Screening Interview (pdf)
La segunda entrevista de asilo: Substantive Interview (pdf)
Ayudas para solicitantes de asilo (Asylum support – pdf)
Evidencia en casos de asilo, inmigración y derechos humanos (Evidence – pdf)
  • Toolkit Contents

      Key Guides

      • Toolkit home
      • About the Toolkit
      • Lawyers (solicitors) and legal advice
      • Legal support (taking action without giving legal advice)
      • How to support someone with the transition to eVisas
      • Evidence
      • Country of origin information
      • Destitution and Housing
      • Work Exploitation and Migrant Workers’ Rights
      • Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
      • Migrants affected by Domestic Abuse
      • No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF)

      Asylum

      • What is Asylum?
      • Entering the UK to claim asylum
      • What Happens When You Claim Asylum
      • Asylum Support: financial support and accommodation
      • Applying for Permission to Work (Asylum)
      • Asylum Screening (First) Interview
      • Streamlined Asylum Process
      • The Inadmissibility Rules
      • Asylum Substantive (Big) Interview
      • Home Office Asylum Decision (grant of status/refusal)
      • What happens when you get Refugee Status?
      • Preparing an Appeal After a Home Office Refusal
      • Your Appeal Hearing at the First-tier Tribunal
      • Asylum: if you are “appeal rights exhausted”
      • Appealing at the Upper Tribunal (after First-tier refusal)
      • Making a Fresh Claim (new evidence after the appeals stage)
      • Judicial Reviews: a legal challenge to how a decision has been made
      • Understanding the Different Asylum and Immigration Courts
      • Immigration Detention and Reporting
      • If You Are Facing Removal or Deportation from the UK

      Immigration

      • Visas: apply for permission to enter or stay in the UK
      • Applying to Stay in the UK Because You’ve Lived Here a Long Time
      • 10 year route to indefinite leave to remain
      • Applying to Stay in the UK Because You Have Children
      • Bringing an Adult Family Member to Live With You in the UK
      • Human rights: family and private life (Article 8)
      • EEA Nationals (also known as EU nationals)
      • After a Home Office refusal (immigration cases)
      • Preparing an Appeal After a Home Office Refusal
      • Your Appeal Hearing at the First-tier Tribunal
      • Appealing at the Upper Tribunal (after First-tier refusal)
      • Understanding the Different Asylum and Immigration Courts
      • Immigration Detention and Reporting
      • If You Are Facing Removal or Deportation from the UK
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