If you are currently in detention and would like to have someone come and visit you, please contact AVID using the links to the left, or access our "Visitors Groups" page to find contact details of groups who visit where you are.

Clink on the links below for information:

MEDICAL/HEALTH:

• Know Your Medical Rights: An advice leaflet for people in UK immigration and Immigration Removal Centres, produced by Medical Justice.
• Medical Justice
• Medical Foundation for Care of Victims of Torture

BAIL/LEGAL ADVICE:

• Bail For Immigration Detainees (BID) visit this website for useful information on how to access bail. BID also produce an information book which is free to detainees How to Get out of Detention, and should be available in the library of the IRC.
• Finding a Lawyer: Click here for information on finding a lawyer (with thanks to the Free Movement blog)

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN INFORMATION

• Amnesty International: You can access their website here and their latest country report here.
• Home Office Country Reports: can be accessed via the Home Office website or by clicking here.
• European Country of Origin Information Network available here.

FOR EX DETAINEES

• Dover Detainee Visitor's Group: Ex Detainee Project: This group may be able to help with support when you leave detention