How MPs and Other Politicians Can Help With Your Legal Case

This guide from Right to Remain (last updated April 2025) explains how people navigating asylum, immigration, or human rights cases can engage elected representatives — including MPs, MSPs, AMs, MLAs, and local councillors — to apply pressure on the Home Office, particularly around delays, refusals, detention, or threatened removal. It offers practical advice on how to approach and prepare for meetings with MPs, what MPs can realistically do (such as raising cases directly with the Home Office or Immigration Minister), and the limitations of devolved politicians in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, whose representations the Home Office has a policy of not responding to. The guide also covers the benefits and risks of public-facing actions such as petitions and media coverage, noting clearly that a petition alone cannot result in leave to remain being granted.