Immigration, asylum and refugees

• Electronic Immigration Network - key site for UK and international resources, large links section and news.
  
  
• Immigration Advisory Service - experienced charity giving free advice and representation in immigration and asylum matters. The Solicitors Unit deals with judicial review and appeals to the higher courts. Regional offices in Birmingham, Cardiff, Central London, Glasgow, Hounslow, Leeds and Manchester. Site includes key immigration information including conditions of entry for students and other categories of visitors and immigrants.
  
  
• Asylum & Immigration Tribunal - an independent tribunal which exists to hear appeals from decisions made by the Home Secretary and his officials in asylum and immigration matters. There are 9 centres which host the IAA: London, Hatton Cross, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow, Havant, Cardiff and Belfast. Site includes Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and other information about immigration and asylum appeals and a guide to the appeals process.
  
  
• Immigration Index - huge number of resources on asylum and refugees, conflict, country data, deportation, detention, discrimination, funding, gender, government, human rights, human trafficking, legal, media, migration and studies.
  
  
• Immigration and Nationality - information about the UK from the government, advice, application forms, appeals, work permits, employers' information, law and policy, asylum, tourism and carriers' information.
  
  
• Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants - independent, national organisation working for justice in immigration, nationality and refugee law and policy, providing free advice and casework, also training and campaigning and publishes the Immigration, Nationality and Refugee Law Handbook. Site also includes key factsheets.
  
  
• Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) - a multilingual site, OISC are responsible for setting standards and regulating the immigration advisers and investigating complaints. Also, search for a registered adviser, by location, adviser or organisation and information on making a complaint and range of publications and online, including newsletters, leaflets and policy documents.
  
  
• workpermit.com - commercial immigration guides, site also includes information and guides to work permits, visas and immigration advice, country reports and discussion forum.

• Access to Learning Funds - financial support fund for students on higher education courses.
  
  
• Asylum Aid - free legal advice and representation to refugees and asylum-seekers, information on advice services and links to other services, leaflets online, also, guidelines, responses to government actions and policies, news and Women's Asylum News bulletin.
  
  
• Asylum Seekers and benefits - FAQs from RightsNet.
  
  
• AsylumSupport.info - provides resources on legal issues, human rights, international related news reports, policy issues, large sections on children and ID cards, newsletter by email and links to large number of other useful sites.
  
  
• Education Action International - supporting refugees and asylum seekers, including advice and guidance for education and training, employment support and work placements, grant programmes and transnational European projects.
  
  
• EthnoMed - health information and resources related to healthcare for people of other cultures, developed in Seattle, USA, covering Amharic, Cambodian, Chinese, Eritrean, Ethiopian, Mexican, Oromo, Somali, Tigrean, Vietnamese, Arabic, Lao, Mien, Samoan, South Asian, Soviet Jewish, Ukranian cultures and languages, and includes materials on cancer, hepatitis and diabetes.
  
  
• HARP (Health for Asylum Seekers and Refugees Portal) - resources for health professionals and volunteers, including sections on vital resources, practical resources, social and cultural information and information for children, women and men, also multilingual information on taking medicine.
  
  
• Law Centres Federation - a local law centre may be able to provide useful advice on matters of migration, asylum and refugee issues.
  
  
• Learner Support Funds - financial support fund for students in Further Education and sixth forms.
  
  
• Multilingual Appointment Card - over 30 languages.
  
  
• National Information Forum - publishes "How to Make a New Life in the UK", a self-help guide for young refugees and asylum seekers (July 2001), charged to agencies but intended to be free for individuals.
  
  
• Refugee Council - policy, news, events, questions and answers, campaigns, myth buster and newsletter by email.
  
  
• Refugee Women's Legal Group - to provide practitioners and others working with refugee women access to appropriate sources of information and support to assist in the presentation of individual cases, links pages and gender guidelines.
  
  
• Refugee Net on Integration - a resource for European organisations and projects, interested and involved in the integration of refugees, including news, links to organisations, working documents, jobs and information on 6 key issues: education, vocational training, employment, community organisations, health and housing. The information includes refugee rights and projects.