Inger den Haan

Deputy Team Head, Immigration Team, Central England Law Centre

Inger arrived from the Netherlands in 1999. After a brief stint working for the Legal Aid Agency as a senior caseworker she started work in immigration practice in 2002, joining the then Immigration Advisory Service initially as an appeals representative, spending most of her days in court, and soon as a supervisor as well. A move to CELC saw a mix of community outreach work (mostly around child citizenship and undocumented young people) and increasingly complex casework for clients with trauma, mental health, medical and capacity issues. She followed this with five years at Freedom from Torture working in a clinical multidisciplinary team, advising clients and clinicians and reviewing clinical letters. Now she is back at CELC as a supervisor with a caseload of mostly very vulnerable clients and also managing a council funded migrant rights in the community project and working with partner agencies locally around immigration issues.

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How to apply for a change of conditions (public funds)

Practice Notes

The Immigration Act 1971 permits the Home Office to grant leave with a condition requiring a person to maintain themselves without access to public funds. The Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (IAA 1999) then restricts access to public funds for those with such a condition (sometimes called an NRPF condition) imposed on their leave. For more information about conditions of leave, see Practice Note: Conditions of permission to enter or stay in the UK.The general principle underpinning the Immigration Rules is that visa holders provide for themselves as a condition of their leave, through employment, self-employment (where permitted) or by being financially independent. For this reason grants of leave on non-protection routes are normally made without recourse to public funds.The expectation, even in human rights-based cases and even where there are children, is that the applicant provides for themselves and their family. The Home Office will not normally deviate from this on its own initiative, even when there are compassionate circumstances.It

Immigration