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Make arrangements to return home voluntarily if you're in the UK illegally or have claimed asylum by assisted return, voluntary return, AVR, VRS
You can get help to return to your home country if you do not have…
You can usually apply for help to return home (‘voluntary return’) if any…
Apply online for voluntary return. You’ll need: your address in the UK an…
Information about the help you can get to return home if you are a migrant with no legal status to remain in the UK or an asylum seeker.
Explores how the migration cycle, including returnees’ displacement experiences and return conditions, are associated with reintegration outcomes
Showcases how the Voluntary Returns Service (VRS) has helped people voluntarily return back to their home country and the support received.
This guide gives advice about the death of a British person in Spain, including information on burial, cremation and repatriation.
Information for British citizens moving to or living in Romania, including guidance on residency, healthcare and driving.
This paper explores differences in economic outcomes between return migrant households and non-migrant households using panel data
43 people returned to Nigeria and Ghana in an operation, part of a surge in returns activity to secure our border through the Plan for Change
The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
The Economic Consequences of Refugee Return
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