Assistance with travel costs to reporting centres

If you are entitled to travel expenses you will receive assistance towards the cost of travel on request. Applications for travel expenses must be made in person at a reporting centre.

Assistance to meet the cost of travel will only be payable if you are required to regularly report as part of your conditions of temporary admission or release. Travelling expenses will not be paid under this provision if you are directed to attend for an interview in connection with your immigration status or for other matters, unless such events are included within an existing reporting regime.

If you live less than 3 miles from the reporting centre you will not be eligible to receive help with travelling expenses except in cases of exceptional need. The 3 miles will be calculated as a radius from the reporting centre.

If you are an asylum applicant living three miles or more from your reporting centre who receives NASS support under S95 or S4 you are eligible to receive help with travel expenses for reporting.

Where an application for travel expenses is approved at a reporting centre, payment will only be made for you, as the person required to report. You will receive a travel ticket for your journey home and for your next reporting event. Payment for other persons to accompany you will be considered under the exceptional needs provisions.

All costs for travelling will only be in the form of travel tickets made valid for your next reporting event. Under no circumstances will assistance for the cost of travel be made in cash. Tickets will be solely for use on public transport covered by a local Passenger Transport Executive.

Where you do not have an automatic entitlement to travel expenses, or you have an automatic entitlement but have additional requirements, a claim for exceptional need can be made.