1) This Festive Season? / Stay out of cars / stay out of detention

2) Solicitors/NGOs/advocacy groups reduced service for next two weeks!


If your immigration status is insecure!

1) The government have launched its annual don't drink/ don't drive campaign.

From now through to the end of the first week of 2009 there will be extra police checks on cars.

If police stop a car they are more than likely to check the details of all the occupants of the car not just the driver. Police will run the names through their national database; the database contains details of persons that the UK Border Agency (UKBA) has an interest in.

If a name comes up as of being of interest to UKBA, that person may well be detained and taken to the nearest police station. UKBA will be informed that the person has been detained and UKBA will them make a decision as to whether to instruct the police to release the person back into the community or hold the person pending transfer to a Immigration Removal Centre.

2) Warning solicitors and advocacy groups will be very thin on the ground over the festive season; many will shut up shop on Monday 21st December through to Monday 4th January 2010.

If you do have a solicitor, make sure you have their emergency number, also emergency number for your MP.

If you do not have Leave to Remain, make sure that you have copies of all your paper work held by your solicitor/case worker (in particular, your Immigration Factual Summary, Home Office 'Letter of Refusal' also called the 'determination', this is the document refusing asylum) at home and a copy with friends, in case you are detained.

NCADC will as ever be providing emergency cover throughout the period to 'Signpost' friends of persons detained what actions if any can be taken.

Please be clear that if you need to contact NCADC it must be by email with *full details of the person you are trying to help, email:

 urgent@ncadc.org.uk

We will require the following information of any person you are seeking help for,

1) ICD.2599 Immigration Factual Summary

2) a copy of the Home Office 'Letter of Refusal' also called the 'determination', this is the document refusing asylum.

We must insist that these documents are sent to NCADC in PDF format. All modern computers have the facility to scan in documents and convert them into PDF's, we will no longer accept multiple Jpegs/tiffs of documents.

their

Full name

Date of birth

Home Office Reference number

Home Office Port Reference number

Same details for any family members

Their location

Phone number of their:

Solicitor including their emergency number

MP including their emergency number

Doctor (if there are any persistent medical problems with any member of your family or yourself)

Numbers of any friends/support group/campaign group

Please be clear NCADC will only offer 'Signposting' as to what you can do, we will not under any circumstances be able to intervene personally in any cases, will not be able to ring persons in detention, will not be able to find solicitors, will not be able to provide legal advice.

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