Immigration, Nationality and asylum
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General
Electronic Immigration Network
The Electronic Immigration Network aims to link major information providers with advice workers and practitioners dealing with all issues relating to immigration, refugee and nationality law and practice in the United Kingdom.
http://www.ein.org.uk
Home Office - UK Border Agency (UKBA)
All official information, guidance, procedures, forms, law and policy on immigration, nationality, and refugees
http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/
I-uk
See the 'Visiting the UK' section for 'Entry requirements and procedures'.
http://www.i-uk.com
Immigration Advisory Service (IAS)
Charity providing representation and advice in immigration and asylum law. Site includes many advice and information guides, news, policy and details of local IAS surgeries. Provides a summary of its services in several languages
http://www.iasuk.org/
Immigration, Citizenship and Asylum
Short guides to sources. In the Virtual Library's 'A-Z how to find information' section
http://www.galaxy.bedfordshire.gov.uk/ webingres/ bedfordshire/ vlib/ 0.information_reference/ immigr_nat_asylum.htm
Institute of Race Relations
News and features relating to refugees and asylum-seekers and to immigration law.
http://www.irr.org.uk/
Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
Provides a telephone advice line. Offers free legal advice on immigration, nationality and asylum matters. Site also includes news, information on law and policy and links to statistics
http://www.jcwi.org.uk/
Moving Here
Aims to 'celebrate, explore and record why people came to England, and what their experiences were and continue to be'. Provides online access to resources which 'record and illustrate the migration of the Caribbean, Irish, South Asian and Jewish communities to England over the past two centuries'. Original materials made available online include photographs, personal papers, government documents, maps and art objects, and a large collection of sound recordings and video clips. Includes a section on tracin
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/
Multikulti
Provides 'culturally appropriate and accurately translated information in the following areas of welfare law: debt, employment, health, housing, immigration and welfare benefits.' Translations are given in Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, Gujerati, Somali, Spanish, Turkish.
http://www.multikulti.org.uk/
OISC Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner
OISC is an independent public body responsible for ensuring that all immigration advisers fulfill the requirements of good practice. The web site includes a searchable register of advisers who are regulated by the OISC. (The register does not include other advisers who provide immigration advice and services, such as practising solicitors, barristers and legal executives. To find those, see the 'Just ask!' web site above.)
http://www.oisc.gov.uk/
Working in the UK
Home Office site giving information about the various routes open to Foreign Nationals who want to work in the United Kingdom.
http://www.workingintheuk.gov.uk/
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Page last updated: 7 October 2008
