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Notice: If you have immigration status in the UK and your pink immigration card - Biometric Residence Permit (BRP) says '31.12.2024', please visit our dedicated BRP guidance web page for advice and information.
What we do
- We have national expertise in Statelessness based applications – with full representation for applications for permission to stay and to register as British citizens on the grounds of statelessness.
- We advise and assist people with children who want to register as British, and can help with fee waiver applications.
- We can advise and assist refugees who want to naturalise as British Citizens.
- We can help with renewal of leave to remain on a discretionary or human rights basis.
- We can assist with SET(P) applications for refugees seeking Indefinite Leave to Remain.
- We can support individuals with Refugee status or Humanitarian Protection to obtain travel documents.
Our lawyers are assisted by trained and supervised law students. It is a free service offered to those who cannot afford to pay a lawyer privately elsewhere. In some cases, our lawyers are able to help people write and submit their application, but we cannot offer this service to everyone we advise.
We have a limited number of appointments between October and December, and between February and May. Please contact us if you would like to make an appointment. The best time to contact us is in August and September for appointments in October and November. If you require advice from February to May, please contact us in December and January.
How to make a referral
We are currently closed for new enquiries and will re-open enquiries when we have capacity.
Our work for Stateless people
Lawyers at the Law Clinic have worked for stateless people since 2013, when new Immigration Rules were introduced, which allowed the grant of a residence permit to stateless people who do not have the right to live in another country. We have written a practitioners’ guide to the Rules, a report on the casework that we have done, and we maintain the UK part of the ‘Statelessness Index’.
Please note that all references to ‘part 14’ are now out of date as the Immigration Rules were amended on 31st January 2024 to Appendix Statelessness.
- Download the full briefing: LLC - AA Statelessness Briefing - Ongoing challenges - Dec 20 (pdf)
- View the UNHCR Audit Report
- Read the Home Office Response
- Read the Free Movement blog article: 'Expert Report Finds Room for Improvement in UK's Statelessness System'
- Download the Law Clinic report on statelessness casework by Jo Bezzano and Judith Carter: Statelessness in Practice (pdf)
- Read the ILPA/Liverpool Law Clinic Practitioners’ ‘Statelessness and Applications for Leave to Remain: a Best Practice Guide’
- View the European Network on Statelessness: UK Statelessness Index
Further information
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