The Right to Remain Toolkit
A guide to the UK immigration and asylum system from Right to Remain.
A step-by-step guide to the UK asylum and immigration system
The Right to Remain Toolkit is free to use, and it's for people who want to learn more about the legal process, or a particular part of the legal process. You might be making an application or are thinking about it; you might be helping someone else to do so.
Know your rights
Understanding the asylum and immigration system, and your own legal case, is very important. Many people have to make their way through this very complicated system without legal representation (without a lawyer). Even if you have a lawyer, it's important to understand your own legal case – this is your case and your life and you need to keep track of what is happening and whether the lawyer is doing the things they should be.
Information and action
The information in this guide comes from experts – from people who are going through the legal process or have done in the past, from those helping them, from lawyers, from community groups. It covers different stages of the legal system and procedures, with detailed information on rights and options at each stage, and advice about actions you can take to be in a better situation, or to help someone else.
Getting started
Immigration
- Visas
- If You Have Children
- Family Members
- Human Rights: family/private life
- Long Residence in the UK
- EEA nationals
- After a Refusal: immigration
- Submitting an Appeal
- Your Appeal Hearing
- Upper Tribunal
- Judicial Reviews
- The Asylum and Immigration Courts
- Immigration Detention
- Removal or Deportation
Asylum
- What is Asylum?
- Entering the UK (asylum)
- Claiming Asylum
- Asylum Support
- Asylum Screening Interview
- Asylum Substantive Interview
- Asylum Decision
- After a Refusal: asylum, human rights
- Submitting an appeal
- Your Appeal Hearing
- Upper Tribunal
- Asylum: Appeal Rights Exhausted
- Fresh Claims
- Judicial Reviews
- The Asylum and Immigration Courts
- Immigration Detention
- Removal or Deportation