You leave the centre

You desperately don't want to have to place your asylum claim in Italy and slip out of the centre. You have an aunt in Germany and a friend in the UK. Both have offered you a roof over your head.

If you do manage to finally make it to the country you hoped to reach, you can file your asylum claim. To be eligible for asylum, you must have left your country and be unable to go back because you fear persecution on account of your race, religion, nationality, political belief or membership of a particular social group.

Notes & Sources: Asylum Aid, Memo, Guardian. Migrants stage protests against the Yarl?s Wood immigration centre.