To download these help notes (in the form of a welcome pack) please go to http://www.ein.org.uk/about_us/welcomepack.pdf

The Electronic Immigration Network (EIN) is a voluntary sector organisation, with charitable status, specialising in the provision of information on immigration and refugee law, via the Internet. You have now joined an expanding service with members across all the sectors of immigration practice including private practitioners, government bodies, the immigration judiciary, NGOs and academics. We are also working together in partnership with the creators of the ICCID database, who are producing up to date country of origin information that is also available, via a separate subscription, on the website.

The EIN website is 'database driven'. Practically this means that each of the sections of the site we talk about are different databases full of different types of information. Although this should not be immediately obvious when you first use the site, as you start to browse or search for information the importance of this structure and how it works will become more apparent. Reading and understanding the following descriptions of how the databases work will greatly assist you in finding the information that you need as quickly as possible.

All orange text in the EIN website is a link to another page in the site or another website or to an email address. When the mouse moves over links they should underline to confirm this. When you have visited a link it will become brown (which also denotes that your computer has temporarily stored a copy of the link/page on your own computer).