How to use these tools

1. Under "Bundle cover", choose your tribunal: First-tier Tribunal if this is your first appeal, Upper Tribunal if you are appealing a First-tier decision.
2. Choose the type of appeal, and type your name and your appeal reference number. The reference is on the letter from the tribunal. If there is more than one appellant, put one name per line and tick "Multiple appellants" to number them A1, A2 and so on.
3. Leave "Respondent" as the Secretary of State for the Home Department unless you are appealing a visa refusal made abroad, which is the Entry Clearance Manager.
4. Press "Add default sections". You get three: Witness Statement, Evidence, and Country Background Information. You can rename them, delete them, or press "Add section" to make your own.
5. Upload your documents into the sections. PDFs and photographs both work. Click any document title to rename it, because the name you give it is the name that appears in the contents page.
6. Drag the handle beside a document to move it up or down, or into a different section. Drag a whole section to reorder the sections.
7. When everything is in place, press "Produce Bundle". You get one A4 PDF with a cover page, a contents page, and page numbers running from 1 through the body.
8. You also get a file ending in .json. That is your save file. Keep it, and use "Import bundle" next time to carry on where you stopped.

Three tick boxes sit next to the Produce button. "Compress images" makes the file smaller, which matters if you have to email it. "Make text searchable (OCR)" reads the words in scanned pages so they can be searched, but it is slow, so leave it until the bundle is otherwise finished. "Auto-sort sections by date" puts documents in date order for you.

1. Type the country. Links to research sources appear underneath.
2. Add your material one entry at a time. There are two kinds.
3. "Add country guidance case" is for a reported tribunal case marked CG. Give the case name, the citation, the paragraph numbers you are relying on, and a sentence or two on why it matters to you. If you paste a link from the Tribunal Decisions website, the citation is filled in for you.
4. "Add background extract" is for a report or a news article. Give the title, paste the passage you are relying on, add the link, and say why it matters.
5. For each entry, choose the disputed issue it goes to: Convention reason, Risk, Credibility, Protection, or Internal Relocation. If none of those fit, choose Other and describe it.
6. Watch the page counter above the list. The tribunal expects this schedule to be twelve pages or fewer. The counter warns you when you go over, and you may then need the tribunal's permission.
7. Press "Export Schedule" for the PDF. "Import Schedule" reopens a saved one.

Country material is general, not about you personally, so nothing here identifies you. Quote the passage that actually helps you rather than attaching a whole report, and say in your own words why it matters to your case. A schedule of extracts nobody has explained is much less use to a judge.

1. Choose a mode. "Plain" asks you plain questions and is the easier place to start. "Formal" lays the same statement out the way the tribunal expects, with a court heading and numbered paragraphs.
2. Say whether this is your own statement, or a statement you are writing about someone else's case as a supporting witness.
3. Fill in who you are: full name, address, and occupation. If you are not working, put "none". Then say what the statement is for, for example an appeal to the First-tier Tribunal.
4. Pick a statement type and press "Load standard sections". There are five: General, Protection or asylum, Human rights, Family reunion, and Medical. Each one loads headings you can rewrite or delete. They are a starting point, not a form to fill in.
5. Write your account with "Add a paragraph". For each thing that happened, try to say when it happened, where, who was involved, what happened, and what happened next. An approximate date is better than no date.
6. Be exact about how you know something. Write "I saw" for what you witnessed yourself, "I was told that" for what someone else told you, and "I am not sure, but I think, because" when you are estimating.
7. Fill in "The most important thing": in a few sentences, what you most want the decision maker to understand.
8. If someone read the statement back to you in another language, tick the interpreter's declaration and give the language.
9. Press "Save statement". You get three files at once: a PDF to print or put in your bundle, an editable Word document, and a .json draft. "Load statement" reopens any of the three so you can carry on.

The statement of truth is added for you, with a space to sign by hand after you print it. Before you send anything, check your statement against your interview record and any documents you have already given the Home Office, so the main facts line up. If something differs from an earlier account because of stress, trauma, or translation, explain why rather than leaving the gap.

1. Fill in your name, date of birth, nationality and home address.
2. Choose which applies to you: you applied to extend or change your leave and are waiting, or your application was refused and you have an appeal in time.
3. Give the dates. When your previous leave expired, when you lodged your application, and your Unique Application Number or Home Office reference. If you are appealing, add the refusal date, the date you lodged the appeal, and the appeal number.
4. Under "The letter", say who it is addressed to. If it is for an employer checking your right to work, fill in the job title box too.
5. Press "Generate letter (PDF)", then print and sign it. "Copy" gives you the same text to paste into an email instead.

The letter quotes section 3C of the Immigration Act 1971 and the Home Office guidance, sets out that your right to work, study, healthcare and benefits continues on the same terms, and tells an employer how to confirm your right to work through the Home Office Employer Checking Service. Check the details are right for your situation before you send it. If you are not sure whether section 3C applies to you, get advice first.

1. Fill in your name, date of birth, nationality, email address and postal address. The Home Office uses these to reply and to send you decisions and original documents, so check them carefully.
2. Enter whichever Home Office references you have. There are four boxes: Home Office reference number, Case ID, Port reference number, and Unique Application Number. You will find them on letters from the Home Office. Leave any you do not have blank.
3. Choose what you are waiting for. If it is an asylum claim, say whether you are chasing a date for your substantive interview, or a decision after your interview has already happened.
4. Give the date you claimed or applied.
5. Read the email that appears at the bottom of the page. Check every detail in it is right.
6. Press "Copy email" to paste it into your own email, or "Open in email app" to start a message with the address, subject and text already filled in. Send it from your own email account.

You can translate this page to read it, but the email itself is always produced in English, because that is the language the Home Office works in. "Save" keeps your answers so you can send a further chaser later without typing them again.

1. "HEIC to JPEG" converts photographs from an iPhone into a format the Home Office and the tribunal can open. This is the one most people need.
2. "Images to PDF" puts several photographs into one PDF, one per page.
3. "PDF to Images" does the reverse, and saves each page as a picture.
4. "Images" resizes and changes the quality of a photograph, for when an upload has a maximum file size.
5. The remaining tabs handle text, Markdown, Word documents and unit conversions, and most people preparing an appeal will not need them.

Everything converts inside your browser, so even a photograph of a sensitive document is never uploaded anywhere.

1. Choose the calendar the date is written in, and type the date.
2. Choose the calendar to convert to, and press "Convert".
3. Give the date a label, for example "my date of birth" or "date on my national identity card". The label becomes the heading in the PDF.
4. Press "Add to document". Repeat for as many dates as you need.
5. Add a case reference if you have one, choose the order the dates should appear in, and press "Export Date Conversions PDF".

The Islamic calendar here is the arithmetic one, which can differ by a day or two from a date fixed by sighting the moon locally. The tool says so on screen, and the explanation is printed in the PDF, so a judge can see exactly how the date was worked out.

1. Photograph the document flat, in good light, with the whole page in the picture. It does not need to be perfectly square.
2. Upload the photo, or drag it onto the page.
3. Drag the four corner handles onto the four corners of the document in your photo. "Auto-detect edges" tries to do it for you.
4. Leave the quality at 150 dpi unless the text is very small, and press "Process Document".
5. Under toning, "Document" usually gives the cleanest result for text on white paper. Use "Colour" if the colours matter, for example a stamp or a photograph.
6. Give it a filename and press "PDF export (A4)". The PDF is then ready to upload into your bundle.

Do one page at a time, then put the pages together in order in the bundle tool, or join them into a single PDF with the converter.