Travel Documents
If you have been recognised as a refugee, then you and the members of your family can apply for travel documents to allow you to travel outside the United Kingdom. You will not be allowed to travel to your country of origin. These documents are called 'Refugee Convention Travel Documents'.
If you have been given Humanitarian Protection in the United Kingdom, you can apply for travel documents if you are unable to obtain a national passport or other identity documents from another country to enable you to travel. You will not be allowed to travel to the country you came from.
If you can obtain a passport or identity documents from another country but have not done so, you can get a travel document if you can show that:
- you have made reasonable attempts to obtain a national passport or other identity documents; and
- there are serious humanitarian reasons why you need to travel.
If you have been given Discretionary Leave in the United Kingdom, you will normally be expected to keep your own national passport valid. However, you can apply for a certificate of identity. You will normally have to prove that you have been formally and unreasonably refused a passport by the country you came from, unless you can show us that you have a well-founded fear of the authorities in that country.
