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The impact of this on Abdul is huge. He had been beginning to find his feet in the local area and moving away, he’s now separated from all of that, he’s very isolated. He also feels a lot of stigma being labelled as an asylum seeker in a new area. The accommodation he’s living in is not great and it’s known in the local area as where the asylum seekers live and he sometimes gets some comments made around that. He’s also really struggling being so far away from his solicitor and he’s not been able to find a new solicitor in his new area who’s willing to take it on. And all of this is having an impact on his physical health and also on his mental health which is then causing him further difficulties with his physical health. He’s struggling.