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Fast Track bail application Rule 30 of The Asylum & immigration Tribunal ( procedure) Rules 2005
Immigration detainees can be:
§ asylum seekers who have arrived legally and whose claims are being investigated;
§ people who have not arrived legally;
§ overstayers who have not returned when their visa expired;
§ criminals awaiting deportation;
§ rejected asylum seekers awaiting removal
In many cases the categories overlap: an illegal entrant or overstayer may also be an asylum seeker. They are detained on the order of an immigration officer and some spend years incarcerated. Some asylum seekers are also held in prisons, although pressure on prisons is resulting in their movement into the detention system. Those still held are suspected “troublemakers” and have no right of appeal against that label.
They have the right to apply for bail but this can be difficult for those who may have left their own country in haste, who may not speak any English and who may very well not have any contacts at all in Britain let alone ones prepared and able to stand as sureties. | 
