If you are no longer able to sponsor a worker and need to provide support to help them to return to their home country, Lester Aldridge have slides available from the Voluntary Returns Service (VRS), which you can view here.
There is a Helpdesk operating Monday-Friday 9.30 am – 4 pm or you can apply online anytime here.
The Home Office Reintegration Programme operates in twelve countries:
- Albania
- Bangladesh
- China
- Ethiopia
- Ghana
- India
- Iraq
- Jamaica
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Vietnam
- Zimbabwe
People eligible for VRS support are likely to be:
- Immigration offenders (over-stayers, illegal entrants and others who have no legal status to be in the UK)
- Open application and appeals (people wishing to withdraw their open application and leave the UK)
- Asylum seekers (people who have made an asylum claim and are awaiting a decision, or it has been refused)
- Victims of modern slavery (people who have made a claim as a victim of modern slavery and are awaiting a decision or have been refused)
- EEA nationals (EEA Nationals who do not hold, and are not seeking Settled Status or leave to remain in the UK)
More information is available from the Home Office here.