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• Asylum and refugees

  Content list for asylum and refugees. Read our advice about offering someone to stay, after you get refugee status and preparing for an asylum review.

• Immigration

  Get advice on moving to and staying in the UK, including dealing with visas

• After you get refugee status

  Finding new housing and applying for benefits after you get refugee status.

• Prepare for an asylum interview

  Get help preparing for an asylum interview (or ‘substantive interview’) when you apply for refugee status - it’s a chance for you to put your case across to someone from the Home Office.

• Offering to let someone from Ukraine stay with you

  Check if you or your family members can apply to the ‘Homes for Ukraine’ scheme and what it will mean if you do

• If you're from Ukraine and your visa is ending

  Check if you can extend or switch your visa, and what to do if you can’t

• Proving your right to work in the UK

  Find out what you need to show your employer to prove your right to work in the UK. Check what to do if you’ve been dismissed or lost a job offer after your employer checked your right to work

• Check if your immigration status lets you get benefits and help with housing

  Check if you’re allowed to claim public funds. Check what counts as public funds, and what else you might be able to claim

• Check if you have the right to work in the UK

  Find out if you can work in the UK. Your right to work in the UK depends on your immigration status - this is also called your ‘leave

• How changes to immigration rules might affect you

  The government announced its UK immigration white paper. Find out if the new rules affect your visa, or applications for indefinite leave or British citizenship