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<p>There are two options available to assist you if you choose to return home:</p>
<ul>
<li>1) You can apply to the Voluntary Returns Service via the Home Office, see more information below or visit <a href="http://www.gov.uk/return-home-voluntarily" target="_blank">this website</a>.</li>
<li>2) You can make your own travel arrangements. You will need to contact the Home Office before booking your travel, in order to make arrangements to collect your passport, travel and any related documentation prior to departure.</li>
</ul>

<h3>Voluntary Returns Service (VRS)</h3>

<p>Migrant Help can provide you with guidance on how to proceed with the Voluntary Returns Service process.</p>

<h3>What is a voluntary return?</h3>

<p>A voluntary return is when someone who has no right to reside in the UK, or who is seeking or has sought asylum, leaves the UK without the Home Office undertaking actions that are considered as being an enforced return.</p>

<h3>What is the Voluntary Returns Service (VRS)?</h3>

<p>The Voluntary Returns Service (VRS) is a Home Office unit that offers practical support for people who are in the United Kingdom with no right to reside, as well as people who have or who are claiming asylum, and who have decided that they wish to return home.</p>

<p>The level of support available depends on individual circumstances. If you would like to return to your home country, but do not have the means to do so, or if you need assistance, the Home Office team can assist you with this.</p>

<h3>What does the VRS do?</h3>

<p>On receiving notification from you, the Voluntary Returns Service will contact you within three working days to conduct checks on your request. You will then have two options:</p>
<ul>
<li>1. Voluntary Return - self funded (you purchase your own travel tickets)</li>
<li>2. Assisted Voluntary Return - Home Office funded (Home Office purchases the travel tickets). Assistance may come in the form of the following:</li>
<li>a. Assistance in obtaining an emergency travel document from the embassy or high commission</li>
<li>b. Support through the process, help at the airport and with medical assistance</li>
<li>c. Scheduled flights, travel documents, cash card, if eligible, and greeted at destination</li>
</ul>

<h3>Who is eligible for a voluntary return?</h3>

<p>The VRS will consider applications for assistance from anyone who is in the UK without the right to remain or who has claimed or is in the process of claiming asylum, providing they have not served a prison sentence of more than twelve months (sometimes called a Foreign National Offender).</p>

<p>The level of support available will depend on personal circumstances.</p>

<h3>What are the benefits of a voluntary return?</h3>

<p>A voluntary return offers the individual a dignified return to their home country by funding their means to go home.</p>

<p>The Home Office may provide you with a limited amount of support to facilitate long term settlement in your home country if you choose to return voluntarily.</p>

<h3>What level of support is available?</h3>

<p>Support can simply be the provision of a travel document which may be held in a Home Office location, or it can be as comprehensive as helping someone with a complex medical condition to travel safely.</p>

<p>Reintegration support is also available in some cases and consists of assistance to set up a business, finding temporary accommodation, funding immediate medical needs or credit on a card to be accessed in the home country. The type of support available to you will vary depending on your individual circumstances.</p>

<p>Reintegration support is available as follows:</p>
<ul>
<li>• Families returning as a family unit - £2000 per person (a minimum of £500 per person will be in the form of credit on a card)</li>
<li>• Asylum seekers and those in the asylum process - £1500 per person (a minimum of £500 per person will be in the form of credit on a card)</li>
<li>• Vulnerable people* - £1000 per person</li>
</ul>

<p><span style="font-style: italic">*People with serious illnesses as certified by professional evidence, individuals with mental illnesses including post-traumatic stress disorder as certified by professional evidence, individuals that have been subjected to torture, rape or other serious forms of psychological, physical or sexual violence such as female genital mutilation (FGM) as certified by professional evidence, pregnant women, people aged 70 or over, disabled persons, confirmed victims of modern slavery, as certified by the National Referral Mechanism.</span></p>

<p>As part of the Voluntary Returns Service (VRS), you may be eligible to receive additional financial support to assist you in reintegrating and restarting your life on return to your home country. It will either be provided in part or in full on a cash card which can then be accessed at a cash machine upon arrival to your country.</p>

<p>The VRS team are partnered with the European Return and Reintegration Network (ERRIN). This is a network of 16 countries who offer integration support – assistance within the home country to help you restart your life there.
If the country you are returning to is part of this network, a percentage of your financial assistance will be allocated to the representative in the country to assist you upon arrival. If you are returning to a county that is not part of the network, you will get the funds placed on a cash card as stated above.</p>

<h3>Contact the VRS team</h3>

<p>To apply for a voluntary return, please call 0300 004 0202 (interpreters are available), or visit <a href="https://www.gov.uk/return-home-voluntarily" target="_blank">this website</a>.</p>

<h3>What if there are children in my household?</h3>


<p>If you are part of a family, you are still liable to be removed. The Home Office will work with you and your family to discuss your options. They will look into the following options:</p>
<ul>
<li>• Voluntary Returns Service - see information above</li>
<li>• Required return - if you choose not to leave the UK voluntarily, the Home Office will write to you to tell you that they require you to return. You will receive a two-week notice of return and must fully prepare yourself and your children for return. It is likely that you will have the option of taking a self check-in and managing your own return.</li>
<li>• Ensured return - ensured return is used when other options to return you to your home country have failed. Your case will be reviewed by an independent families return panel if you reach the ensured return stage. The panel will advise the most suitable method of return based upon safeguarding any children.</li>
</ul>

<h3>What happens if I don’t want to return?</h3>

<p>If you choose not to use any service to assist with your return, or do not make the effort to leave the UK, the Home Office will take enforcement action to remove you. This means forcing you to return to your country of origin.</p>

<p>If the Home Office is considering removing you from the UK, your case will be transferred from the Home Office’s UK Visas and Immigration Department to Home Office Immigration Enforcement.</p>

<p>Immigration Enforcement will give you a written notice if the intention is to remove you from the UK and notify you of any right of appeal against this decision. They have to follow a legal process that enables them to force you to leave the UK if you are Appeal Rights Exhausted and you have no further legal basis to be here. This may involve arrest and detention in a secure centre until you leave the country.</p>

<p>Alternatively, Immigration Enforcement may simply ask you to report to a designated place at a certain time, whilst your removal is arranged. The Home Office may detain you without warning while it arranges your removal.</p>

<h3>Circumstances for detention</h3>

<p>The Home Office will look at the following factors in deciding if it should place you in detention. These are:</p>
<ul>
<li>• Your previous immigration history</li>
<li>• Your country or origin</li>
<li>• Whether you have complied with the conditions of your immigration bail</li>
<li>• The likelihood of your absconding</li>
</ul>

<h3>What if I still think it is not safe to return?</h3>

<p>If your asylum case has been fully determined and you have been unsuccessful, it is important that you seek legal advice to see whether any further options are available to you, and whether there are any further submissions that can be used in your case.</p>

<p>You should ask your legal representative about this. They must explain all further options to you when closing your case.
You may be able to submit a fresh claim for asylum to the Home Office. To do this, you will need to have further evidence to submit to the Home Office. The submissions will amount to a fresh claim if they are significantly different from the material that has previously been considered.</p>

<p>The submissions will only be significantly different if the content:</p><p>
</p><ul>
<li>• has not already been considered; and</li>
<li>• when, taken together with the previously considered material, creates a realistic prospect of success, notwithstanding its rejection.</li>
</ul>

<h3>Voluntary Returns Service - example</h3>

<p>Mr C returned to India in 2017 after 13 years living in the UK.</p>

<p>Mr C moved to the UK to find work. He sold his land to generate around $5,000 USD which he paid to an agent to help him transfer. Mr C stayed in the UK for around 13 years where he mainly worked illegally at a goods and foods store. His motivation to stay was that he was misinformed that if he stayed in the UK for 14 years he would receive UK citizenship.</p>

<p>When he found out the information was false, he decided to return home to India, voluntarily.</p>

<p>Before he had made his decision, he was detained three times in detention centres. It was there that he found out about the return assistance available. Through the VRS and our reintegration partner ERRIN, he received £500 cash assistance and in-kind assistance of £1,000 to buy a car, which enabled him to set up a taxi business back in India.</p>

<p>Mr C now earns to support himself and is pleased with his choice of reintegration business support. He is now settled in Punjab and would not return to the UK again. If he did, he would only return through legal routes.</p>

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