Immigration Cases

The immigration team in Southwark Law Centre delivers specialist legal advice and assistance including outreach, telephone and email advice to frontline advice agencies and casework including appeals and judicial review.   

We do not have the capacity to take on a large number of cases, but we prioritise complex cases involving children, women who are at risk of violence, and individuals and families facing destitution and homelessness for reasons relating to immigration status.

For more information on immigration advice services in Southwark and Lewisham click here. Please note that Catford CAB has moved and is now Lewisham CAB Leemore Community Hub, Bonfield Road, Lewisham, SE13 5EU

Migrant's Access to Healthcare - Presentation to Forum for Equalities and Human Rights 13th July 2016

Please click here for the presentation notes.

Please see this guide on how to register with a GP for asylum seekers, refugees, undocumented migrants and refused asylum seekers.

Brexit and EU citizens' rights

Please click here to read Tim Lawrence’s paper for our workshop on Brexit and EU citizens' rights with Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth (part of the London Coalition Against Poverty).

Leave to remain with ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ - January 2018

A guide on preparing a 'change of conditions' application for people who are destitute

For individuals, please click here.

You should use this guidance if:

• You have limited leave to remain for 2.5 years

• With no recourse to public funds

• You are facing homelessness or very serious poverty

• You want to apply to the Home Office to get access to mainstream welfare benefits and social housing

 For Immigration Advisors, please click here

You should use this guidance if:

• You are a registered immigration advisor accredited at OISC Level 1 or above

• Your client has limited leave to remain on the basis of their family or private life (except under the 5 year parent or partner route)

• With no recourse to public funds

• They are facing homelessness or very serious poverty

• They want to apply to the Home Office to get access to mainstream welfare benefits and social housing