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RAMFEL 🧡
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Find all our other content here: https://linktr.ee/ramfeluk

What do we do?
📍 Immigration advice & representation
⚖️ Take government to court
🎤 Centre lived experience in our advocacy
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"Tagging people seeking asylum when they're not accused of a crime is cruel, punitive & will funnel more public money to private companies.
If the govt is serious about saving public funds & reducing crime, they should grant people seeking asylum the right to work"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sussex PCC suggests making asylum seekers wear electronic tags
Katy Bourne says it would give asylum seekers
www.bbc.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Our impact in 2025!
▶️Gave 380 people weekly food parcels
▶️Secured 335 people leave to remain
▶️Got 186 people indefinite leave to remain
▶️Secured 58 people British citizenship
▶️Overturned 30 wrong decisions on appeal
▶️Supported 26 homeless families to find housing
▶️Reunited 11 displaced families
December 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Sharing some Christmas joy. Days like this are what our work is all about. ❤️
December 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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1/🧵📣NEW STATEMENT

Members of the Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group have shared a new statement responding to recent changes to the asylum system and how these plans make them feel as people who came to the UK seeking safety.

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December 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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What politicians & the media forget & ignore is that it's people who are targeted by their cruel asylum policies & anti-migrant rhetoric.
Like you, these people have hopes, dreams & fears.
Today 1 such person sent us this. It captures the human impact of the govt's nasty & divisive approach 👇👇
December 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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“If the government is serious about improving the current system, they should prioritise granting refugees permanent status sooner. This will reduce Home Office bureaucracy, save public money and improve social cohesion.”
RAMFEL's Nick Beales in @bigissue.com
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
UK asylum system delays and flaws found to be 'harming lives'
Refugee charities have said delays and inefficiencies can cause "uncertainty, ill-health and, too often, homelessness" for asylum seekers.
www.bigissue.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Starting the week with good news: our client has been given 30 months further leave to remain.
He did though wait 29 months for his application to be processed.
These delays evidence how the Home Office cannot cope with demand. Govt plans to increase settlement routes will make things far worse.
December 15, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Today we were in Westminster, training staffers for five London MPs! This was a great chance to ensure MPs are aware of the complexities of the immigration system, and how it affects their constituents. Also a great opportunity to hear from the casework teams about problems they encounter!
December 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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"Mahmood’s radical plans to overhaul the asylum system could cause “unintended consequences” such as increased homelessness among people seeking refuge & case backlogs, Whitehall’s spending watchdog concludes."
Replace "could" with "will" & this is spot on.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum overhaul in UK could lead to rise in homelessness and backlogs, says report
National Audit Office says Shabana Mahmood’s plans may have ‘unintended consequences’ on stretched system
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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We hit our target with minutes to spare.
A massive thank you to everyone who donated and supports RAMFEL's work. This will make a huge difference and allow us to help even more people in 2026.
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
Justice for refugees, asylum seekers & migrants! – Big Give
Many migrants, refugees & asylum seekers are denied rights because they cannot get legal representation or are shut out of settlement/status by unjust systems. Funds raised will help challenge the ho...
donate.biggive.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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For 2 more hours your donations will be doubled via the Big Give Christmas challenge. Double the impact & help us support people navigating an incredibly hostile & unforgiving environment.
We're 75% of the way to our target. Let's go 💪
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
Justice for refugees, asylum seekers & migrants! – Big Give
Many migrants, refugees & asylum seekers are denied rights because they cannot get legal representation or are shut out of settlement/status by unjust systems. Funds raised will help challenge the ho...
donate.biggive.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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For 24 hours you can still see your donations doubled. Every penny goes towards helping some of the most vulnerable members of society who are stuck in a brutal and hostile immigration system.
We're 66% of the way to our target. Let's do this 💪
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
Justice for refugees, asylum seekers & migrants! – Big Give
Many migrants, refugees & asylum seekers are denied rights because they cannot get legal representation or are shut out of settlement/status by unjust systems. Funds raised will help challenge the ho...
donate.biggive.org
December 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Just 2 more days to have all donations doubled as part of the Big Give's Christmas campaign.
All donations make a huge difference to our work & allow us to support vulnerable people battling a toxic & hostile immigration system. ❤️💙💚
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
Justice for refugees, asylum seekers & migrants! – Big Give
Many migrants, refugees & asylum seekers are denied rights because they cannot get legal representation or are shut out of settlement/status by unjust systems. Funds raised will help challenge the ho...
donate.biggive.org
December 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Right now public money fuels private profit while people live in poor conditions. It hurts all our communities. Our report sets out a council-run alternative. Email your MP and ask them to speak about it in Parliament: https://bit.ly/4pFEXly
Tell your MP to back community-led housing in 2 minutes!
It's time to give councils what they need to lead asylum housing and invest in social homes. I’ve asked my MP to read Refugee Action’s new report and back it. Add your voice now!
act.refugee-action.org.uk
December 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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"Hardline migration policies adopted by governments across the globe have been a boon for people smugglers".
Of course.
Safe routes are needed now if you want to a) prevent people taking dangerous journeys and b) end the demand for smuggling gangs.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Hardline migration policies are fuelling people smuggling, report finds
As leaders try to break smugglers’ business model, research suggests strategy so far has had opposite effect
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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The UK government is threatening to deport our Ukrainian client to Russia. His whole family fled Ukraine following the Russian invasion and he has no one in Ukraine, let alone Russia.
Even if Russia would accept him, how on earth could the government think he'd be safe there?
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December 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Help fight anti-migrant hatred this Christmas.
This has been a difficult year; with racist riots & further restrictions on migrant rights.
Donations via this link tinyurl.com/RAMFEL until 9th December will be doubled to tackle unjust laws & increase access to legal advice.
Justice for refugees, asylum seekers & migrants! – Big Give
Many migrants, refugees & asylum seekers are denied rights because they cannot get legal representation or are shut out of settlement/status by unjust systems. Funds raised will help challenge the ho...
tinyurl.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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"The govt's ‘earned settlement’ plans clearly discriminate against south Asian, African and Caribbean migrants, who make up the vast majority of people on the existing 10-year route to settlement. The intersection between classism and racism is clear."

@nickbeales.bsky.social @ramfel.bsky.social 👏
"A low-paid carer from Ghana has cancelled all the benefits she is legally entitled to, including the disability allowance one of her children receives, owing to fears about her immigration status after the policy changes announced by the home secretary."

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK immigration status fears prompt carer to cancel benefits she is entitled to
Woman cancels all benefits including disability living allowance for daughter after policy change announcement
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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"The government’s ‘earned settlement’ plans clearly discriminate against south Asian, African & Caribbean migrants. The intersection between classism & racism is clear"
RAMFEL's Nick Beales responds to our client giving up her autistic kid's disability support
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK immigration status fears prompt carer to cancel benefits she is entitled to
Woman cancels all benefits including disability living allowance for daughter after policy change announcement
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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We have made an animation, to show how the 'No Recourse to Public Funds' immigration condition, has harmed our families:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4x3...

Please write to your MP using our pre-filled letter template, to ask them to call for an end to #NRPF:
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win.newmode.net/project17/wi...
The harmful impact of NRPF
YouTube video by United Impact
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Another day, another worried parent contacting us about what Labour's cruel immigration rules mean for them.
If the govt want to strike fear & panic into parents & partners of British citizens, people who've lived here for decades, & people with serious health conditions, mission accomplished.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Our client, a parent to a young child, just reached out, clearly terrified about her status. This panic and fear is being felt across so many families right now. People’s anxiety and mental health are suffering at the hands of our Gov. This is not fair.
November 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
We received this from a single mother, panicking about Labour's cruel plans to increase settlement routes, ramp up deportations & make life more hostile & unpleasant for migrants in the UK.
This is the human cost of these oppressive and counter-productive policies.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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After 2 decades in the UK, our client has finally been given his visa.
He's now eligible for indefinite leave in 10 years.
Yet, the govt wants to change these rules & make him wait another 30 years.
So they think he should qualify for indefinite leave after living here for half a century.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
"Nestor is a top chef who's worked at Michelin-star restaurants in Edinburgh & London."
What a guy.
We don't know Nestor's salary, but there's a good chance this govt thinks he's not rich enough to have "earned" the right to stay here permanently.
www.standard.co.uk/news/nestor-...
‘I arrived here as a child refugee — now I’m a chef at Michelin-star restaurants’
As This Day donates £900K to our campaign taking the total raised to £1.4M, we reveal how the Scottish Refugee Council helped an unaccompanied child who came with nothing
www.standard.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM