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Asylum Support and Immigration Resource Team

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ASIRT is a not-for-profit OISC regulated advocacy organisation which provides legal support and representation to asylum seekers and other undocumented migrants in the West Midlands.

We can help with:

  • Human rights applications (including help with fee waivers)
  • Applications for recourse to public funds
  • ‘Zambrano’ applications
  • Fresh asylum claims
  • Applications for local authority Children Act/Care Act assessments
  • Training around migrants’ health and social care rights for local professionals.

We help those that are not eligible for publicly funded legal representation, and lack the financial resources to be able to pay for private representation to help regularise their immigration status.

Latest news from ASIRT

ASIRT is recruiting! (closing date 27/04/2018)

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Manager, ASIRT (Asylum Support and Immigration Resource Team) ASIRT is seeking to appoint an experienced and dynamic manager with the ability to develop and deliver high quality services for vulnerable clients. This is an exciting, creative and challenging role for someone with significant management experience and a strong commitment to… Read More

Manager job opportunity at ASIRT!

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Manager, ASIRT (Asylum Support and Immigration Resource Team) ASIRT is seeking to appoint an experienced and dynamic manager with the ability to develop and deliver high quality services for vulnerable clients. This is an exciting, creative and challenging role for someone with significant management experience and a strong commitment to… Read More

Case Studies

‘Tell Me How It Ends’

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I’ve recently read Valeria Luiselli’s excellent ‘Tell Me How It Ends’, an account of the author’s experience of working as a volunteer interpreter for migrant children at risk of deportation from Trump’s America. In one passage, Luiselli recounts a conversation with her young daughter about her work, in which she… Read More

Access to justice: a right, not a privilege.

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March has arrived and with it, finally, the promise of longer, warmer days. But if the winter seems to have been interminably long for those of us with secure immigration status, access to a regular income, and safe, warm homes, I’m struggling to imagine how it might have been experienced… Read More