Assistance to EU citizens in the UK
We chair the Citizens’ Rights Monitoring Network which consists of 60+ civil society stakeholders and all EU/EFTA embassies. The Network meets regularly, to detect issues, which affect EU citizens in the UK and to improve the exchange of information between the embassies and the organisations that assist EU citizens.
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Assistance to EU citizens in the UK
To assist EU citizens in the UK, the EU Delegation offers several services free of charge, such as one-to-one consultations on immigration rules (book here) or information sessions (online or in person) on the practical aspects of the EU Settlement Scheme (book here). Communication materials produced by the EU Delegation on EU citizens’ rights are available here and regularly posted via EU Delegation’s social media accounts.
More information is available on our dedicated website eurights.uk. If you are an organisation representing and working with EU citizens and their families in the UK, you are also welcome to join our dedicated Facebook page. To raise issues, which affect EU citizens in the UK, you may report information that you deem relevant to the EU Delegation via eu-citizens-rights@eeas.europa.eu or to your Member State consulate. The list can be found here.
EU Citizens' Rights Monitoring Network - members contacts
Monitoring Network organisations
| Organisation name | Website | About |
| ADASS – the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services | https://www.adass.org.uk/ | ADASS, as a charity, provides a national voice and leadership for adult social care. |
| Advice NI | https://www.adviceni.net/https://www.adviceni.net/ | Advice NI delivers a range of advice services to the public including Benefits, Personal and Business Debt, EU Settlement Scheme, Tax Credits and other HMRC services. |
| BID - Bail for Immigration Detainees | https://www.biduk.org/ | BID is an independent charity that exists to end immigration detention in the UK. |
| Bridgwater Citizens Advice | https://citizensadvicesedgemoor.org.uk/ | Bridgwater Citizens Advice offers confidential advice online, over the phone, and in person, for free. They also give advice on consumer rights on their consumer helpline, support witnesses in courts through the Witness Service and give pension guidance to people aged over 50. |
| British Future | https://www.britishfuture.org/ | British Future is an independent, non-partisan think tank and registered charity, engaging people’s hopes and fears about integration and immigration, identity and race. |
| Cardinal Hume Centre | https://www.cardinalhumecentre.org.uk/ | The Cardinal Hume Centre supports families and young people facing poverty and homelessness by helping them to thrive. |
| Citizens' Advice | https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/ | Citizens' Advice offers confidential advice online, over the phone, and in person, for free. They also give advice on consumer rights on their consumer helpline, support witnesses in courts through the Witness Service and give pension guidance to people aged over 50. |
| Citizens' Rights Project - Scotland | https://citizensrightsproject.org/ | Citizens’ Rights Project provides information, advice and support for EU citizens in Scotland by connecting groups and organisations working within European communities. |
| Connections at St Martin's | https://www.connection-at-stmartins.org.uk | The Connection at St Martin’s works with people who are rough sleeping to move away from, and stay off, the streets of London. |
| Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ | https://caj.org.uk/ | The Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) is an independent, non-governmental human rights organisation that works to ensure that the administration of justice in Northern Ireland is compatible with the highest international human rights standards. |
| Coram - Children's Legal Centre | https://www.coram.org.uk/ | Coram offers direct, practical help and emotional support to vulnerable children, young people, and their families. |
| Diversity Voice Bridgwater | https://diversityvoice.org.uk/ | Diversity Voice is a registered charity in Somerset who champions intercultural understanding and provides support and services to prevent marginalisation and work towards equality for all. |
| Doctors of the World | https://www.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk/ |
Doctors of the World is an independent humanitarian movement working at home and abroad to empower excluded people to access healthcare. Through 350 programmes in 80 countries run by more than 3,000 volunteers they provide medical care, strengthen health systems and address underlying barriers to healthcare. |
| Ealing Community and Voluntary Service | https://ehcvs.org.uk/ | Ealing and Hounslow Community Voluntary Service is a registered local charity that has been supporting voluntary and community sector groups in Ealing for over 30 years and Hounslow groups since 2012 |
| EERC – East European Resource Centre | http://www.eeac.org.uk/ | East European Resource Centre is a charity (reg. no. 1114607) that provides information, advice and support to people from Central and Eastern Europe from the 2004 and 2007 EU accession countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. |
| Glass Door | https://www.glassdoor.org.uk/ | Glass Door coordinates the UK's largest network of open-access services for people affected by homelessness. Year-round, people find advice and support to end their homelessness through trained caseworkers based at partnering drop-in centres. |
| Greater London Authority | https://www.london.gov.uk/ | The Greater London Authority, colloquially known by the metonym "City Hall", is the devolved regional governance body of Greater London. |
| Here for Good Law | https://www.hereforgoodlaw.org/ | Here for Good was founded in 2018 to support Europeans and their family members to stay in the UK after Brexit by providing high-quality, free immigration advice. |
| Hibiscus | https://hibiscusinitiatives.org.uk/ | |
| ILPA - The Immigration Law Practitioners' Association | https://ilpa.org.uk/ | The Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA) is a professional association and registered charity, the majority of whose members are barristers, solicitors, advocates and OISC regulated advisers practising in all aspects of immigration, asylum and nationality law. |
| IMA (Observer Status) | https://ima-citizensrights.org.uk/ | The Independent Monitoring Authority for Citizens’ Rights Agreements (IMA) is an independent non-departmental public body. The IMA helps to make sure people from EU and EEA EFTA countries get the same rights as they did before the UK left the EU. |
| IMiX – migration communications hub | https://imix.org.uk/ | IMIX is a team of professional communication experts who want to change the conversation about migration and refugees to create a more welcoming society. |
| IRMO – Indoamerican Refugee & Migrant Organisation | https://irmo.org.uk/ | IRMO works to enable the development, agency, and participation of Latin Americans and other Spanish and Portuguese speakers, by responding to both immediate needs and structural inequalities by offering high-quality information and advice services, opportunities for development and training, and a platform to seek social and systemic change. |
| JCWI – Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants | https://www.jcwi.org.uk/ | For more than half a century, JCWI has been challenging policies that lead to discrimination, destitution and the denial of rights. They have been providing legal and advice services to the people who need them most and have helped tens of thousands of people secure their status, keep their families together and escape poverty. |
| Just Right Scotland | https://www.justrightscotland.org.uk/ | Just Right Scotland uses the law to defend and extend people's rights. They work in partnership with like-minded organisations who share their vision of a fairer and more equal Scotland. |
| Law Centres Network | https://www.lawcentres.org.uk/ | Law Centres have existed since the early 1970s and work within their communities to defend the legal rights of local people. Specialising in social welfare law, they have an in-depth knowledge of the issues communities face. They use this knowledge to help people save their homes, keep their jobs and protect their families. |
| Migrant Voice | https://www.migrantvoice.org/ | Migrant Voice is a migrant-led national organisation building a community of migrant voices to speak for themselves and call for justice for all. |
| Migration Law - Leicester | ||
| Migration Observatory (Oxford University) | https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/ | Based at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford, the Migration Observatory provides impartial, independent, authoritative, evidence-based analysis of data on migration and migrants in the UK, to inform media, public and policy debates, and to generate high quality research on international migration and public policy issues. |
| New Europeans | https://neweuropeans.uk/ | New Europeans were set up in 2013 for EU citizens to secure their right in the UK and play a full and active part in their communities |
| Praxis | https://www.praxis.org.uk/ | Praxis provides expert support to migrants and refugees in the UK. |
| PILC – Public Interest Law Centre | https://www.pilc.org.uk/ | PILC exists to challenge systemic injustice through legal representation, strategic litigation, research and legal education. They specialise in public law, actions against public authorities and public inquiries, bringing cases to court for individuals and grassroots groups who have been treated unfairly. |
| Public Law Project | https://publiclawproject.org.uk/ | PLP employs specialist lawyers who assist individuals experiencing personal disadvantage, or charities or organisations representing the interests of marginalised or disadvantaged groups. |
| RAMFEL (Refugee and Migrant Forum of Essex and London, co-Lead on the GLA’s Homeless and Migrants Advisory Panel) | http://www.ramfel.org.uk/ | RAMFEL provides immigration advice (OISC level 3) and generalist advice alongside destitution services and support to build a new life in the UK. |
| Refugee and Migrant Children Consortium | https://refugeechildrensconsortium.org.uk/ | The Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium (RMCC) is a group of NGOs working collaboratively to ensure that the rights and needs of refugee and migrant children are promoted, respected and met in accordance with the relevant domestic, regional and international standards. |
| Respeito | https://respeito.org.uk/ | Respeito is dedicated to reducing domestic abuse in the Portuguese speaking community by raising awareness of its negative impact and by providing training, support and information to empower people to become agents for change. |
| Right2Work | https://www.right2work.org.uk/ | Right2Work carries out an increasingly diverse range of activities (training, learning and employment support opportunities) with a long term strategy built around 3 key elements: community, learning, wellbeing. |
| Rights of Women | https://rightsofwomen.org.uk/ | Rights of Women is a women’s charity working in a number of ways to help women through the law. Their services aim to provide women with the legal advice and information they need to understand and use the law and their legal rights. They also work to improve the law for women and increase women’s access to justice. |
| Roma Support Group | https://www.romasupportgroup.org.uk/ | The Roma Support Group (RSG) is a Roma-led Registered Charity (Charity No: 1103782) and a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales (Company Registration Number 04645981) working with East European Roma refugees and migrants. Since 1998 the RSG has worked with thousands of Roma families, offering them a variety of services, engaging the Roma community in all aspects of running and managing the organisation and promoting an understanding of Roma culture in the UK. |
| Settled | https://settled.org.uk/ | Settled is a charity set up in 2019 to help EU citizens living in the UK whose rights were affected by Brexit. They continue to provide information, advice and support to EU citizens, including people who are late applying to the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS), or who have had their application refused. They also help when people are struggling to prove their immigration status or access rights and services. |
| St. Mungo’s | https://www.mungos.org/ | For over 50 years, St Mungo’s has been at the forefront of efforts to tackle homelessness. Each night their 17 outreach teams go out to help people sleeping rough to move away from the streets. They provide a bed and support to over 3,150 people and work to prevent homelessness and support people at every step of their recovery from homelessness. |
| The AIRE Centre | https://www.airecentre.org/ | The AIRE Centre (Advice on Individual Rights in Europe) is a specialist legal charity that works to ensure that all people enjoy their rights under European Law. They provide a unique service on the interrelationship between the two European legal orders and international Human Rights Law. |
| The3million | https://the3million.org.uk/ | the3million is the largest grassroots organisation for EU citizens in the UK, formed after the 2016 referendum to protect the rights of people who have made the UK their home. |
| Transition Advice Fund | https://www.thinknpc.org/examples-of-our-work/initiatives-were-working-on/transition-advice-fund/ | The Transition Advice Fund (TAF) aims to ensure that everyone who is eligible can secure their right to settled status—particularly those who need help to navigate the process or who risk failing to secure the status. |
| UKCEN Forum | https://www.forum.ukcen.com/ | Forum for practical help and support with applications for EEA nationals and family members. |
| University of Liverpool | https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/ | |
| University of Reading | https://www.reading.ac.uk/ | |
| York University Faculty of Law | https://www.york.ac.uk/law/people/ | |
| Work Rights Centre | https://www.workrightscentre.org/ | The mission of Work Rights Centre is to support migrants and disadvantaged Britons to access employment justice, and improve their social mobility. Every week in London and Manchester they run a free and multilingual advice clinic. |
