Related Pages:

Immigration and Asylum (Jun 1999 revised March 08)

Links:

Life in the UK Test [Opens in New Window]

Information for refugees and Asylum Seekers (cyberLibrary) [Opens in New Window]

The Refugee Council [Opens in New Window]

Multikulti - Information, advice, guidance and learning materials in community languages [Opens in New Window]

Asylum Seekers

We want you to feel welcome here, and we hope these pages will help you to settle in

They describe the services available to you in Gloucester. Many of them are free for you to use.

Some organisations exist especially for refugees and asylum seekers and invite you to come and meet the people working there.

You can also find out about schools for your children, adult education including English classes, how to access doctors and dentist, about shopping, paying bills and how to make telephone calls.

We hope that you will feel cared for as you make your new home in Gloucester.

If you, or anyone you know, has difficulty reading English please have a look at the Multikulti website - see the link to the right of this article.

This site has useful information in Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, Gujerati, Somali, Spanish and Turkish on welfare benefits, housing, immigration, health, employment and debt.

See also Related Pages on the right for the Social Care Asylum Seekers policy.