{"id":83633,"date":"2017-08-23T14:32:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T14:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=5b8f0f7f6e18b5ca1beaa50391c9b254"},"modified":"2017-08-23T14:32:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T14:32:05","slug":"news-story-civil-news-reminder-for-immigration-providers-reimbursement-of-client-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=83633","title":{"rendered":"News story: Civil news: reminder for Immigration providers, reimbursement of client travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>When claiming travel costs, paragraphs 8.49 to 8.51 of the 2013 Standard Civil Contract (Immigration Specification), explicitly states that such costs are claimable where:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>at the time the matter is opened there is not a more local provider<\/li>\n<li>the client is in receipt of NASS support or is an Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Child (UASC) who is supported by Social Services<\/li>\n<li>the client is informed, prior to the attendance, that the reasonable costs of their travel on the cheapest available public transport are then claimable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This provision aids those clients who are required to make journeys outside of their locality to instruct their legal representative.<\/p>\n<p>If providers encounter issues in applying this provision, they should contact their contract manager to discuss further.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/441393\/category-specific-rules-immigration-and-asylum.pdf\">2013 Standard Civil Contract (Immigration)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The travel costs of a client for the purposes of attending their office to give instructions, are payable under the immigration contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}