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ADDRESS FOR MEETINGS

32-36 Loman St., Southwark, London SE1 0EH
(Nearest tube: Southwark - Jubilee Line)   Map
 

ASYLUM SUPPORT MEETINGS

Next meeting Tuesday Sept 23rd.

The Asylum Seekers Support Meetings are held monthly.  The meetings can be a vital first point of contact for those who have not yet made an asylum application and who have a real fear of persecution if they return home.

Our Executive Director will be available from 5.30 pm on meeting days, for informal discussion of your immediate needs and/or how the meeting can be of most use to you. If you need a referral to a specialist legal aid solicitor, your details will be taken at this time.

These preliminary chats will help us to optimise the structure of the main meeting to suit as many people as possible. PLEASE arrive early to allow plenty of time to assess whether you will benefit from a one to one talk with a solicitor at the end of the meeting.  Due to time pressures, the number of individual solicitor sessions will be limited.

The main meeting will run from 6.30 to 8.30 pm

The meeting will usually start with a talk given by two solicitors and a barrister, followed by general questions after which there will be an informal group discussion. One to one meetings with a solicitor may be possible after this if time allows. Whilst there are likely to be aspects of your own situation which you may not want to talk about in the open meeting, sharing your story will be appreciated by and valuable to others and you will find the meeting very supportive.  There will also usually be some translators present.

If you would like the solicitors to discuss a specific topic or issue that you are facing, you can also email our beforehand

More on the meetings on the Asylum Support Project page.
 

PARTNERSHIP MEETINGS

Third Saturday of each month.   £10 for non-members (couples or individuals)

Next meetings 1.00pm - Saturdays October 18th., November 15th.    Address

The meetings start with a talk by two solicitors, then general questions within the meeting. Afterwards you can have an informal one to one discussion with one of the solicitors, but you may have to be patient - those who arrive at the meeting first will also be first on the solicitors list. To give everyone a chance, individual sessions are for maximum 10 mins.

If Civil Partnership is your main concern, please read and digest our Civil Partnership Guide beforehand. All the information we have on CP is posted there.

Those who attend the partnership meetings will understand that, with the continually increasing costs associated with asylum seekers support work, which is now our primary focus, we cannot afford to run these meetings at a loss. The solicitors (who normally charge £200 or more per hour) donate their Saturday afternoons once a month.  You can play your part in the vital work of the project (and come to as many partnership meetings as you need) by joining as a member or friend of the group (min £20).  There will be a per-meeting charge of £10 for non-members (couples or individuals) to help cover, at least, our overheads.   Address

PHONE LINES

Please note that we are not able to respond in person to your asylum queries if you are not in the UK already. See here for more information about the UK asylum system and procedure.

The helpline +44(0)20 7922 7811 is open as follows:

* This service is operated by volunteers using remote diversion.  We are aware of and are working hard to resolve some recent problems of reliability. Messages left by callers to the solicitors helpline will be dealt with, as far as possible, in the subsequent 2 working days.  If you do not require legal advice, you may receive your answers by posting your question on our Forum.

WEBSITE - FORUM - EMAIL

With the arrival of Civil Partnership legislation, there is a solution to most partnership immigration questions contained within this website.  Our volunteers, however, frequently find themselves giving information which is already available on line.  With the moving of our focus towards asylum, it is increasingly important that our limited resources are properly targeted. With a little extra time and patience, you are likely to find what you need here.

If you have exhausted the resources of the website and the many related links, but still appear to have an unanswered question - visit our very active Forum.    Volunteers, solicitors and others with personal experience of the UK immigration process visit the Forum regularly.  It is a valuable resource which also has a powerful search facility.

You may, however, have a partnership question which you are unable or unwilling to share on the Forum.  In such a case, please

If your question relates to asylum

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