For nine years, whilst living in the UK, he has been separated from his family due to his immigration status as an asylum seeker. He is not eligible for public benefits or housing assistance. He has no local family home to return to and no relatives he can turn to for shelter. This isolation has left him completely alone in a country that offers him virtually no support.

Most bachelors spend a period of 1-2 years looking for a professional job whilst moving back home after university. However, this option was not available to Hans. Having signed and maintained a private rental for month after graduating, his previous employer decided to wrongfully fire him and refuse to pay his final month's wages. This ongoing issue has led to his landlord enforcing an eviction order due to his lack of access to social funds and housing assistance. Unlike most recent graduates who often have the option to move back home for a year or two while job hunting, Hans had no such fallback, neither through family nor government assistance.

His employer wrongfully terminated him and refused to pay his final month’s wages. For weeks, they reassured him daily that the payment was coming, keeping his hopes alive. During this time, Hans continued searching for new work, knowing the money owed would cover 3 months' rent. But on Christmas Eve, they called to say it was now a “personal matter” and they would not be paying him at all, that they couldn’t be bothered to find the issue in their system to resolve it for him, believing he has no method of holding them accountable, and telling him not to contact them ever again.

With no income, no savings, and no access to benefits, Hans quickly fell into two months of rent arrears plus council tax bills for the same period. His landlord is a private agency that has now issued an eviction order. The matter of the owed wages is in court, but it could take many months before a hearing even takes place. However, during this limbo, Hans faces imminent homelessness due to an eviction order issued for the second week of February.

If Hans applies for emergency destitute housing support, his limited right to work and rent in the UK is at strong risk be revoked, destroying his ability to support himself long-term and annulling the progress that was won in 2024. This is essentially a non option and would keep Hans in the same limbo state hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers are kept in.

Being an asylum seeker often means those suffer immense economic and social pressures, especially in the existing political climate where such migrants are increasingly demonised and discriminated by in the home office in the hopes of scoring political points. In 2024, Hans arbitrarily has his right to study and right to work revoked, which was later revealed to be a result of admin error by the Home Office rather than a result of unfair procedure. We raised a significant amount of money last time which contributed towards the significant legal costs and eventually resulted in Hans having his right to work and right to study reinstated. Almost 2 years later, due to the same immigration status Hans is put at increased pressure of being homeless like other asylum seekers are compared to UK nationals.

Hans now needs help to secure a new, affordable place to live in a location where he can commute to professional jobs aligned with his degree, while also working any minimum-wage role to survive. He cannot afford to wait for the court case to resolve; he needs immediate stability to keep applying for jobs and rebuilding his life.

How Your Support Will Help

The money raised from this GoFundMe will be used to provide the sort of assistance UK nationals are eligible for whilst homeless, which Hans is denied due to his immigration status inspite of the fact he has lived here for 9 years.

Hans has shown incredible resilience during his time in the UK, achieving a bachelor's degree and being in full-time employment since 2020 despite the many roadblocks in his life. But he cannot do this alone. Your generosity can be the turning point that keeps him safe, housed, and moving forward.

Please, if you can, donate today and share this campaign, as every action helps out.

Thank you.

Faris