Training for Visitors on Deportation
Delivered by Bail for Immigration Detainees (BiD), this training provides visitors with an overview of the legal framework for deportation, the deportation process and steps that people in detention can take to respond.
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In this training (from February 2026), Carmen from Bail for Immigration Detainees (BiD) discusses the legal framework and process in the UK for deportation.
The training covers exceptions to deportation, Exceptional Case Funding and the process for stage 1 and stage 2 deportation decisions. Carmen provides practical tips for visitors to support people at risk of deportation -including how to respond to deportation notices, how to help people access legal advice and guidance on gathering evidence.
If you are interested in specific information, you can find this at the following timestamps:
- Exceptions to deportation – 29 seconds
- Access to Legal advice – 24 minutes
- Responding to the One Stop Notice Decision to Deport (Stage One) – 36 minutes
- Responding to a deportation order (Stage Two) – 57 minutes
This training session focuses on the legal framework and the practicalities for people impacted deportation.
For a discussion on the drivers and harms of criminalisation, as well as the scapegoating of ‘foreign criminals’, please watch this talk hosted by AVID with Luke De Noronha on Criminalisation, Racialisation and Deportation.
About the speaker
Carmen Kearney is the Legal Manager of the Deportation Project and the Separated Families Bail Team. She joined BiD in 2014 to set up the Deportation Project. Before BiD she was a caseworker at Asylum Aid.
BiD is an independent charity that exists to end immigration detention in the UK. They work towards their mission through the provision of legal advice, information and representation alongside research, policy advocacy and strategic litigation. BiD works closely with AVID and AVID members, offering vital support including representation and working with people in detention who do not have a lawyer to make applications for bail.
Further Resources
For further information and guidance on deportation:
- BiD has several useful self-help guides for people in detention, including on how to respond to a One Stop Notice and Deportation Appeals
- The Public Law project has useful guides on how to apply for Exceptional Case Funding
- Visit the AVID handbook for information on the distinction between legal advice and giving information
- Visit the AVID handbook for information on deportation
- Learn more about the SOAS law clinic and their Exceptional Case Funding project here