ASIRT

Asylum Support and Immigration Resource Team

We are stronger together

ASIRT is a not-for-profit OISC regulated advocacy organisation. We provide 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 has moved!

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ASIRT has now moved to new premises in Digbeth, on the south side of the city centre. Our new office is more easily accessible from across the West Midlands, being very close to Digbeth Coach Station and New Street and Moor Street railway stations. Our new address is: 109 Zellig… Read More

Case Studies

Unsettled Status

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With the advent of Brexit, people will doubtless have read of the chaos and uncertainty facing European Union nationals resident in the UK who are seeking to regularise their status under the Home Office’s Settled Status scheme. But if the situation is difficult and confusing for people with clearly demarcated… Read More

After ‘Windrush’?

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Months after the ‘Windrush’ scandal caught the public imagination- sparking a public debate on the wilful institutional neglect which contributed to the destruction of thousands of lives- distressing stories continue to hit the news. Yesterday, for example, we read of the early death of Sarah O’Connor, who had been resident… Read More

Strategy or chaos?

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ASIRT has recently begun working with ‘Tina’, the intelligent and formidable single mother of ‘Brendan’, who is 13. Brendan is British. He acquired his citizenship from his father, Tina’s ex-partner, who has passed away. Tina, however, is not British. Because of this, she is required by the Home Office to… Read More