About this Toolkit

The Right to Remain Toolkit is a free, continuously updated guide to the UK immigration and asylum system, developed in 2011 in response to needs identified by asylum and migrant support groups and communities across the UK. It covers the different stages of the legal process in detail — including rights, options, and practical actions at each stage — and is aimed at people making applications, considering doing so, or helping someone else. The guide is particularly valuable for those without legal representation, though it also helps people with a lawyer to stay informed about their own case. Resources include legal update blogs, YouTube videos, an interactive Asylum Navigation Board, and formally translated materials in multiple languages including Arabic, Farsi, Pashto, Urdu, and others.