RLS is a co-signatory to the below Joint Statement. 8 September 2022 In December 2021, the European Commission presented a proposal for a Regulation addressing situations of instrumentalisation in the [...]
“People should not forget what is happening in and outside of Afghanistan and the families who have been affected by it.” An interview with Rhona French, Senior Caseworker, on the [...]
RLS is a signatory to the below joint letter, sent 28/08/2022 to the Greek authorities. It it also available in pdf here. Dear Manos Logothetis and Patroklos Georgiadis, In light [...]
August is a month with dark memories for many Afghans. One year ago, in Afghanistan, city after city fell as the Taliban grew closer and closer to the capital. Then, [...]
RLS’ Shamim Sarabi has been talking to other people in the Afghan refugee community to get their reflections on recent anti-refugee laws in the UK. Below is one of many [...]
Our colleague Becky Hart spoke to the i on Friday about how little the UK government has done for Afghans seeking to reunite with their families. Becky highlighted the failure [...]
New research from Refugee Legal Support highlights the barriers that refugees, asylum seekers and people fleeing conflict face to being reunited with loved ones in the UK. The research raises [...]
We joined 100+ orgs to show our solidarity with all people seeking safety and call on UK politicians to change their hateful rhetoric. The Independent article can be found here [...]
RLS’s legal coordinator in Athens, Lucy Alper, visited the Khora Asylum Support Team (KAST) to provide a training session about Dublin Family Reunification. The session also covered historical context and [...]
On the 1st of March 2022, the UK Prime Minister announced a set of concessions allowing British nationals and individuals settled in the UK to bring their parents, grandparents, adult [...]
Photos sent to G by his daughter Before Brexit, people seeking asylum in Europe with family members in the UK had to make sure that their claims for asylum were [...]
© Daphne Toli [image] RLS is a signatory to the below joint briefing on the situation in Greece, which sets out key recommendations to MEPs. Download: Joint NGO Briefing on [...]
Lessons from the Aegean A pushback takes place when a state forces people out of its borders without considering their individual circumstances: when states push back refugees and asylum-seekers, they [...]
This article first appeared in ILPA monthly November 2019. Nadia O’Mara is on the Executive Committee of Refugee Legal Support. Shrinking legal protections for refugees and asylum seekers in Greece [...]
CGTN published a piece providing an important look into how Europe treats refugees: the children left without a home and schooling. Refugee Legal Support’s Ella Dodd spoke to CGTN about [...]
The Guardian wrote today about the prospects of family reunification in the post-Brexit era. Refugee Legal Support-Athens’s work is featured on this piece. Read here for more.
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For the last 6 months, I volunteered in Athens at Refugee Legal Support. It was overwhelmingly clear that there are systemic deficiencies in the Greek Asylum Service and no proper [...]
Two members of the RLS Family Reunion From Europe (FRFE) team, Efi Stathopoulou and Harry Harris, wrote an article on the post-Brexit landscape as regards family reunification to the UK [...]
