Personal Advice

Nasc offers personal advice on a wide range of issues. We guarantee complete confidentiality. We run a drop-in service for any immigrant, refugee, migrant worker or asylum-seeker from any part of the world. We also welcome academics, researchers, students and other voluntary statutory and voluntary agencies.

If we cannot help you directly we will refer you to a service which can help.

Issues which people come to Nasc about include:

• Advice on all aspects of the asylum system from application stage to final decisions - we do not help people to apply for asylum but we can advise people on how the system works
• Migrant worker issues e.g.  – abuses in the work place
• Advice on Humanitarian Leave to Remain
• Applying for Family Reunification
• Deportations
• Refugee and asylum rights
• Refugees and others settling into the community – general integration needs
• Understanding the Health system
• Understanding the Social Welfare system
• Travel documents
• Marriage
• Students
• Citizenship
• Visas of all kinds
• Health, including mental health and issues such as abortion travel rights
• Domestic violence and rape
• Education/Training of all kinds
• Childcare issues
• Leave to remain on basis of Irish Born Child and currently a wide range of issues relating to work, education, housing, social welfare
• Racism
• Job seeking
• CVs
• Social, cultural issues and the arts
• Voluntary repatriation
• Research/students/academics

Nasc does not have the resources to help people find housing.