Immigration legal advisors IAS (Immigration Advisory Service) announced on Monday 11th July 2011 that they have closed all their offices. IAS have been running some of the free legal advice clinics under the Detention Duty Advice scheme at Brook House IRC, Tinsley House IRC, and Lindholme IRC.
If you are in detention and were a client of IAS you will need to find another immigration legal advisor. If you cannot afford to pay for a solicitor you should make an appointment with the Detention Duty Advice scheme by going to the detention centre library or speaking to a welfare officer in your centre.
Note added January 2015 to new BID website:
"A notice from the joint administrators of Immigration Advisory Service stated "IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT RETRIEVING FILES FROM IAS If you are a former client of IAS and want to retrieve your file, pursuant to a court order made on 27 February 2012 you now have only until midnight on 28th May 2012 to make a request for retrieval. If you do not make a request for retrieval within this time, any files held by IAS cannot be retrieved and we will then aim to have them securely destroyed.....Any requests received after midnight on 28 May 2012 will not be considered."
