Who does Asylum Aid represent and what can we do?


Asylum Aid provides legal advice and representation to people who are in the UK and who are in fear or are unable to return to their country of origin.

In particular, Asylum Aid represents:

  • Asylum seekers
  • Children seeking asylum
  • Refugees
  • Victims of trafficking
  • Stateless people
  • Those who have suffered domestic violence and relationship breakdown in the UK and fear return to their country of origin or residence.
  • Others who fear returning to their country of origin
  • Refused asylum seekers who want to regularise their immigration status

Asylum Aid provides our clients with legal representation in their asylum and immigration claims.  We will represent our clients in their applications to the UK Border Agency in all stages of their appeals to the Tribunal, Court of Appeal and beyond.    We also provide our clients with legal representation in Judicial Reviews. 

 

We realise that our client’s legal problems can be complex and we are able to offer them a wide range of services.  For example, we offer legal representation in:

  • Asylum claims and appeals, including further representations after their initial claim or appeal has been unsuccessful
  • Applications  and appeals on behalf of asylum seeking children who are seeking to extend their permission to remain in the UK
  • Applications and appeals on behalf of clients who are in fear or unable to return to their country of origin but who are seeking to regularize their immigration status
  • Applications for existing clients for family reunion once they have been recognised as refugees or granted humanitarian protection 
  • Applications for bail or challenges to the lawfulness of detention to secure release or damages
  • Applications for emergency injunctions to prevent existing clients being forcibly removed
  • Applications for existing clients who require help to obtain travel documentation or naturalise as British citizens

 

Unlike many other legal aid funded representatives, we aim to attend substantive asylum interviews with our clients, because we believe that this is a necessary part of representing our clients.

We are able to represent clients in England and Wales.  We are able to provide interpreters for our clients who wish to use them.  We are happy to represent clients of all nationalities and backgrounds.  We are happy to represent clients who are held in immigration detention or detained in prison.

We specialise in representing women, who make up at least 50% of our clients.  All women clients are offered the choice of having a woman legal representative.

 

Some members of the team have developed particular areas of expertise and have experience of representing clients in high profile and precedent setting cases. 

Current areas of expertise include:

  • Providing representation in asylum appeals
  • Representing victims of trafficking
  • Representing children
  • Representing gay men and women
  • Representing destitute refused asylum seekers.
  • Representing victims of domestic violence