We offer email advice from a specialist solicitor on all issues affecting migrant, asylum-seeking and refugee children and young people, whether they are separated or in families.
What is your enquiry about?
- EEA / EU issues
- Welfare issues affecting a child in care or a care leaver with insecure immigration status
- British citizenship for children
- Education issues for migrant children
- Work and training
- Families who are undocumented – routes to regularisation
- Young people who are undocumented – routes to regularisation
- Renewals of leave to remain
- ‘Best interests’ of children and what this means in practice
- Family reunification / Dublin III
- ‘No recourse to public funds’ conditions
- Immigration fees and fee waivers
- Access to healthcare
- Age assessments and age disputes
- Criminal justice, detention and deportation of young people
- Trafficking
- Children’s asylum claims
- Finding a lawyer, legal aid and exceptional case funding
Who can contact us?
If you need advice, you can email mcpadvice@coramclc.org.uk and we will respond to your email as soon as we can. This service provides one-off advice; we cannot take on cases.
Please note that we no longer offer telephone advice.
We will try to help anyone with a query – front line practitioners in the statutory and voluntary sectors, parents/carers, and children and young people themselves. The demand for this advice is high and there may be a delay in responding to your query. To minimise delay in providing advice, please give as many relevant details as possible in your initial email.
Before contacting us, please read the legal information above as this covers many of the common issues affecting migrant, asylum-seeking and refugee children. If you have further questions and are a child, young person or family member, you can contact us by email.
Confidentiality
This advice is confidential. If you contact us for email advice, we will keep your details in order to follow up on your enquiry. We store some anonymised data, such as age of children and query topic, to help us to improve our service.
If you contact us by email, we may send you an email survey after you have received advice within twelve months of first contact. If you would not like to receive this, please let us know in your advice email.
We store personal information given to us by people who contact us for advice, securely, for six years from the date you contact us. We do this because we need to keep secure copies of the advice we give with to comply with the regulatory requirements of the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner. You can ask for a copy of your data, or for your personal data to be deleted, at any point. Find out more about what information we hold, how we use it and how it’s kept safe by reading our privacy policy.
