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The core of our service is defending human rights by providing free legal support to asylum seekers and, increasingly, migrants who have no other means. Our focus is on those seeking refugee status or humanitarian protection and on migrants who may need protection or help to secure fair treatment under the law. Our clients include:

• asylum seekers at every stage of the process, including children (both accompanied or unaccompanied)
• victims of trafficking
• foreign national victims of domestic violence
• people detained in immigration removal centres
• those in temporary police custody in relation to an immigration matter
• foreign national prisoners either during or at the end of their sentence
• people already recognised as refugees

Refugee and Migrant Justice seeks to provide an “end-to-end” legal service to its clients. This means we will advise and act for eligible clients from the initial stage of resolving their problem for example, in making their initial claim for asylum or other protection and through the various layers of the appeals process. If the case merits it, we will represent clients all the way through the legal system to the House of Lords and the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. Where it helps our clients we undertake country guidance and test cases and pursue other strategic litigation.

As part of our comprehensive service we also provide follow-up services for clients who have been granted permission to stay in the UK, such as extensions of leave, family reunion applications and applications for naturalisation to become a UK citizen.

RMJ have some 200 legal staff in 13 offices across the UK. From those offices we help people at advice clinics, over the telephone, by referral from other agencies and by personal appointment. We also work through outreach in a number of other locations and hold advice surgeries in most immigration removal centres.

We ensure that clients who do not speak or read English have the services of well-qualified interpreters and translators.

In order to provide a free service, we are obliged to check the financial eligibility of our clients through a means test. We must also make an assessment of the merits of the case. If we cannot help a client, we will use our extensive referral network to put the client in touch with someone who can. Everything we do for our clients remains in strict confidence unless our clients have agreed otherwise.

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RMJs complaints procedure is available here .