Your rights and the law

The Right to Remain Toolkit

A guide to the UK immigration and asylum system

What are human rights?

From the Equality and Human Rights Commission

How to get help

The best way to get help is to fill in the online self-referral form. This gives us a chance to find out what the problem is and allocate your case if we can help. We also run drop-ins and outreach surgeries where you can get initial advice regarding housing, welfare rights, energy debt, evisas, and resettlement matters. All our services are tailored for people from refugee and migrant communities.

Positive Action Network

Discover useful contacts and resources for people from BME, refugee, asylum-seeking, and migrant communities. Access a wide range of support organisations that offer multilingual and multicultural services. Resources throughout Scotland and the entire UK.

Know your housing rights as a new refugee

Received a positive asylum decision? Are you a newly granted refugee or just been given leave to remain? Have you receive a letter from Mears Group telling you to leave your accommodation? Then read this briefing.

How to report a hate crime

Hate incidents are any events where you or another person perceive the event to be motivated by prejudice towards a particular group who are protected from such prejudice being directed at them.

How to sue the Home Office

The Home Office often makes mistakes when exercising its immigration powers. The high appeal success rates bear testimony to this: as many as 50% of some categories of appeal are allowed. However, there are only some limited circumstances where it is possible to extract compensation from the Home Office by means of a court case.

Challenging your reporting conditions

If you have made an immigration application or have claimed asylum you may have to report (sign) at the Home Office at a specified time each week, two weeks, or month or sometimes less regularly than this.

Find a lawyer in England

Search the Law Society database

Find a lawyer in Glasgow

Search the Law Society of Scotland database to find contact details of law firms

Links for EU Nationals

If you are looking for multilingual information about the EU Settlement Scheme including: An overview on accessing your rights under…

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