Immigration Detainees

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This handbook tells you how you can get released from detention. This handbook will be updated regularly. Please check that this is the latest version by looking at our website www.biduk.org or by contacting us by phone on 020 7247 3590. Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID) has three offices. Each office deals with different Removal Centres: BID London for Colnbrook, Harmondsworth, Tinsley House, Dungavel, Morton Hall Yarl’s Wood, Oakington and all HM Prisons Tel: 020 7247 3590 Fax: 020 3468 2489 BID Oxford for Campsfield House and Brook House Tel: 01865 200 357 Fax: 01865 793 009 BID South for Haslar and Dover Tel: 023 9281 6633 Fax: 023 9282 1529 NOTE TO READERS: WE HAVE TRIED TO AVOID USING UNNECESSARY TECHNICAL…show more content…
Anyone who is legally in the UK can be a surety. This includes people with student visas, people with refugee status, people with work permits, and European Union nationals. Asylum seekers can stand as sureties. People who are unemployed can be sureties, but they must have enough money. If your surety has a criminal conviction, they probably cannot be a surety (unless the conviction is spent). It is a good idea for your surety to have met you a few times at least, so that she or he can explain to the Immigration Judge that she or he knows you well enough to make sure you keep in touch with the authorities. If they have not met you many times, the Judge may be happy with them if you have spoken many times on the telephone. Your sureties need to attend the bail hearing because the Immigration Judge will want to speak to them. Normally the Immigration Judge will not accept a surety who does not come to court. Many people ask BID “my surety lives in London. Can the bail hearing be listed in another IAC?” The answer is, unfortunately, no. SEE PAGE 29 TO SEE WHICH COURT YOUR SURETIES MUST GO TO. IT IS DIFFERENT FOR EACH DETENTION…show more content…
Here are some arguments you can use in your grounds for bail, and in court. * Perhaps the Home Office are mistaken when they say you have broken rules in the past. If they have made a factual error in your monthly progress reports, you should point this out to the judge. * Perhaps you are waiting for a decision on your immigration case or on an asylum claim, or have an appeal to stay in the UK. Naturally, you wish to wait for a positive decision, and absconding or breaking conditions would damage your case. You should argue therefore that you have no interest in running away while your case is being decided. * Perhaps you have sureties, or you will be living with family or close friends. In this case, you can make the argument that you have a strong reason to stay in one place. This is particularly the case if you have a child to look after, or an elderly relative or someone with an illness. * Perhaps you yourself have a medical condition, or a problem that needs treatment, which means that you must stay in one place in order to keep receiving treatment. In such a condition, you are unlikely to run
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