Apart from a few countries, legal aid for refugees is sparse, but is crucial to the realisation of refugees ’ rights, especially the critical first step: recognition of refugee status. Few law schools offer courses in refugee law. Lawyers representing refugees tend to work in isolation. This limits access to information and resources- for both.
Immigration Lawyer Search: American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) In select detention facilities across the United States, Legal Orientation Programs (LOP) provide information about immigration court procedures and other basic legal information.
See full list on refugeelegalaidinformation. A repository of policy and guidance documents that is updated whenever a new protection policy or guidance document is published and can thus be relied upon to represent the current state of UNHCR protection policy and guidance. Subjects include legal topics (for example, UNHCR guidance on the different elements of the refugee definition) and operational protection gu. One of the best advisors on immigration and asylum law is Free Movement.
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