EU Settled Status: Partnership working in Doncaster

3rd October 2019 by ficheb

After many months of mobilisation and community engagement, Migrant Action, The Junction Cafe, Hexthorpe Primary School and The Youth Association are delighted to be working together to raise awareness and provide practical support for vulnerable migrants in Doncaster to apply for the EU Settlement Scheme.

This collaborative and coordinated approach would ensure efficiency and effective support as well as enhance access and choice for EU citizens wishing to regularise their stay in the UK when the UK leave the EU.

The organisations/locations in Doncaster where EU citizens will be able to receive information, guidance and support would be; The Junction on Wednesday and Thursday 1-4pm and Hexthorpe Primary School Monday and Tuesdays. Migrant Action will assist with complex cases by facilitating referrals of complex cases to relevant specialist agencies and providing advocacy support.

Migrant Action and its partners hope to provide support for EU citizens applying for the scheme until March 2020.

Migrant Action was established in 2016 as an Advocacy and Rights based organisation providing information, guidance, advocacy support and direct practical assistance to ‘vulnerable’ migrants. Migrant Action works with migrants who have fallen through the cracks of the immigration system including (but not restricted to) stateless people, those who have been unable to regularise their status and those on temporary visas. We work to ensure equity of rights and justice for migrants, and although the primary focus of our work is not with asylum seekers and refugees, we do signpost them to appropriate … Read more ..