We cannot provide immigration advice.

In Winchester, you can get some local advice from Citizen’s Advice Winchester District about how to access free legal advice which we call legal aid in the UK.

You can also click on the following organisations/services which are not based in Winchester but may be able to assist you.

If you are an asylum seeker and trying to navigate the asylum system the Right to Remain Toolkit is available online for free. You can access it here.

The toolkit provides a step by step guide to the UK asylum and immigration system. It is free to access and provides very clear information and can help you to understand your rights.

Unfortunately, we live in an area where there is not local legal advice (legal aid) for asylum seekers easily available but we signpost you to organisations that may be able to help.

Find a Legal Aid Advisor for England and Wales & Scotland and Northern Ireland if you need an immigration solicitor and are on low income. Legal aid is not “public funds” for the purpose of immigration rules, so you can apply even if you are on a visa that doesn’t normally give you access to public funds (such as benefits).

Ukrainian Legal aid is an international consortium of solicitors, and can be contacted online. You can also contact the Immigration Advice Service for free legal advice, using the contact form on their website.

Advice Ukraine focus on immigration in and to the UK, and can be contacted at [email protected]

Information on Help-Desks set up to support legal representatives and those providing support to Ukrainian refugees in neighbouring countries from the Council of Europe

Solicitor Directory for England and Wales & Solicitor Directory for Scotland and Northern Ireland

The AIRE Centre provides free, specialist legal advice and other legal services to individuals directly on issues relating to:

• EU law on free movement (e.g. you are a migrant from another European Union Member State, or a family member of a citizen of another European Union Member State, and you have a question about your residence status, expulsion or right to access benefits); or
• where you have exhausted all domestic remedies and are making an application to the European Court of Human Rights.

ATLEU provide legal advice and support to survivors of trafficking and modern slavery.