About us

EIN is a membership organisation and joining EIN gets you access to the materials on the EIN Members' site. Fees to join EIN are here (it’s the subscription fees paid by our members that fund the EIN website). You can sign up here and start using EIN straight away if by card.

EIN members range from the judiciary to small NGOs. Our core member base is legal practitioners. The EIN website has built up a reputation as an indispensable resource for immigration law practitioners, with a December 2016 review of asylum practitioners by the Solicitors Regulation Authority finding EIN was used by 92% of the firms surveyed.

If you are an immigration or asylum practitioner, EIN membership gives you a comprehensive range of resources at an affordable price. EIN membership gets you access to all of the following:

Case law

The EIN website launched back in 1998 in order to make immigration Tribunal decisions available electronically. The EIN Case law database has since grown into a unique resource, with the full text of thousands of immigration decisions, with Immigration Tribunal determinations and selected judgments from UK higher courts and European courts. All decisions are chosen for their relevance to immigration and refugee law, saving you time sifting through general legal databases to find relevant immigration cases.

Many cases feature a headnote summary, identifying and explaining the key issues, which are written for EIN by a leading immigration barrister.

Legislation and Resources

EIN maintains databases of relevant immigration legislation and general immigration resources. The legislation database includes the full text of relevant Acts of Parliament and Statutory Instruments.

Country information

The country information on EIN is provided by HJT Research*. It has been available on EIN since 2002 and has grown into a massively comprehensive resource for asylum practitioners and for those wanting information on human rights conditions in refugee producing countries. It contains the full text of over 300,000 reports (as of January 2024) and is updated daily with the latest country information. Every one of the over 100 countries covered has its own separate homepage, with reports categorised by type and publisher, making it easy to navigate and find relevant content.

And you can use the country reports in conjunction with the special 'bundle' feature (see below) to create fully paginated and indexed Microsoft Word format court bundles.

* To access the country information on EIN, you will need to take out a joint EIN/HJT membership (or a HJT Only membership if you only require the country reports).

Bundle function

The bundle feature is a great time saver and enables you to create and save personal bundles of documents, all stored on the EIN server and accessible from anywhere you log in to EIN. Any one of the over 350,000 cases and country reports on EIN can be added to a bundle with a single click. And you can then turn your document bundles into court-ready, fully paginated and indexed Microsoft Word format bundles via a special add-in for Microsoft Word. The add-in is available as a free download for all EIN members (including those only subscribing to case law) and is available for Microsoft Word for Windows.

You can highlight key passages to automatically create a schedule of essential reading, and you can edit these bundles like any normal Word document and add your own materials, including your own text and Word documents. The software even allows you to add PDF files and create a single, fully paginated PDF bundle. You can read a brief guide here on how to create a bundle.

From November 2024, you can also use a new EIN citation tool to quickly and easily create a country information evidence schedule for your bundles, as required by the new Practice Direction of the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber). 

Advanced searching

EIN is fully searchable via an advanced, high speed search engine. The search is exceptionally intelligent yet simple and easy to use. You can search the whole of EIN or you can choose to search each database individually. Results can be sorted by relevance or by date, easily letting you find the most relevant or the most recent materials.

How do I join and how much does it cost?

Prices to join EIN are available here (to access the country reports on EIN, you will need to take out a joint EIN/HJT membership or a HJT Only membership).

You can join EIN by signing up here. Select the number of accounts and the membership type you require, enter your details and choose whether to pay by card, cheque or bank transfer. You can start using EIN straight away if paying by card (all card payments are handled securely by Stripe).

You can also e-mail us if you would prefer that we set up your accounts for you. Include the names and e-mail addresses of all the people you require EIN accounts for. We will set up the accounts and invoice you for payment.

If you have any questions about joining EIN, please e-mail admin@ein.org.uk.