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2 December 2020

New Resource: Know Your Rights Guide 2020

We have written this guide for all migrants living in the UK, including those without documents and those trying to regularise their immigration status, including asylum seekers.

This guide is to help you understand your rights in a situation where immigration rules are changing regularly. It is also useful for anyone who cannot prove they are British or have Indefinite Leave to Remain, for example if you don’t have a passport or immigration documents. Other migrants, including those from the European Union, refugees and those with Limited Leave to Remain will also find it useful.

In recent years, the government has been making it harder for all migrants to live their lives without the fear of immigration checks and the threat of deportation or removal from the country. The government hopes that this will force many to leave the UK. They also want to discourage other people from coming into the country.

This guide will explain:

  1. What your rights are
  2. How changes in the law may affect you
  3. What you can do if you face challenges
  4. Where you can go for support and advice

The guide was produced and coordinated by Migrants’ Rights Network. Our contributors are: Against Borders for Children, Doctors of the World UK, Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX), Liberty, Migrants at Work, Migrants’ Rights Network (MRN), Open Rights Group, Project 17, Victim Support & Welsh Refugee Council. With thanks to the following for their work on the first version of this guide: Emma Gardiner, Jean Demars, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI), StopWatch, Stop Hate UK, Respond Crisis Translation

All of these organisations have come together to write this guide because we exist to defend and promote the rights of all migrants. We hope that it will help you to understand how the law affects you and what you can do.

Updates & Translations

We will be working to produce an online version and we will be continually updating this guide to reflect any changes to immigration policy as it happens.

We are working on translating the guide in as many languages as we can. If you are able to help us with this work please email [email protected]  Please find below our current translations: