Travel Document Project

Practical Information

For detainees - what you can do to get your travel documents

If you are appeal rights exhausted, the UK Border Agency will expect you to leave the United Kingdom. Depending on your nationality, you will normally need to have a passport or some other travel document to be able to leave the UK and enter your country of origin. If you do not have a valid passport the UK Border Agency will expect you to provide them with information about your identity to help them obtain travel documents for you.
Travel documents and bail strategies

USING A BAIL APPLICATION TO CHECK THE PROGRESS OF A TRAVEL DOCUMENT APPLICATION
Advice to legal representatives taken from "Challenging Immigration Detention: a best practice guide", ILPA/BID, 2003. Page 64 (guide currently under revision)

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BID London

020 7247 3590

020 7426 0335

Monday - Thursday 10-12. For detainees in Harmondsworth, Colnbrook, Yarl's Wood, Tinsley House, Morton Hall, Dungavel, and immigration detainees in prisons

BID Oxford

01865 200 357

01865 793 009

Tuesday - Friday 10-4. For detainees in Campsfield House, Brook House, Lindholme

BID South

023 9281 6633

023 9282 1529

Monday - Thursday 10-4. For detainees in Dover and Haslar

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07949 404505

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