Asylum decision making guidance (asylum instructions)
Asylum policy guidance for decision making in asylum applications.
This collection contains asylum policy guidance used by UK Visas and Immigration to make decisions on asylum applications.
Documents
- Applications from abroad: policy
- Article 1D of the Refugee Convention: Palestinian refugees
- Assessing credibility and refugee status: caseworker guidance
- Checking a representative is legally authorised to provide immigration advice
- Code of conduct: interpreters working for UK Visas and Immigration
- Conducting asylum interviews
- Considering children’s individual protection needs
- Considering human rights claims
- Dependants and former dependants
- Disclosure of information relating to asylum applications
- Discretionary leave
- Doubtful and disputed nationality cases
- Drafting, implementing and serving asylum decisions
- EEA and EU asylum claims
- Exclusion under Article 1F of the Refugee Convention
- Family asylum claims
- Family cases
- Family reunion
- File management
- Further submissions
- Gender issues in asylum claims
- Gender recognition in asylum claims
- Granting humanitarian protection
- Immigration and Asylum Act and the Refugee Convention
- Inadmissibility: third country cases
- Integration loans
- Language analysis
- Lost, stolen or incorrect status documentation
- Mandate refugees
- Medical evidence in asylum claims
- Military service and conscientious objection
- Multiple applications
- Non-compliant claims
- Operational instruction: Hague Convention cases
- Overview of family reunion options in the Immigration Rules
- Pending prosecutions in asylum claims
- Permission to stay on a protection route: caseworker guidance
- Permission to work
- Refugee leave for claims lodged before 28 June 2022
- Restricted leave
- Reviewing refugee leave or settlement protection: full equality impact assessment template
- Revocation of protection status
- Revoking indefinite leave to remain in the UK
- Settlement protection
- Sexual identity issues in asylum interviews
- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Transfering refugee status - interim notice
- Transgender identity issues in asylum claims
- Translations for asylum claims
- Withdrawing asylum applications
- Writing minutes
Last updated 28 June 2022 + show all updates
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Guidance on permission to stay on a protection route for claims made from 28 June 2022 published.
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Guidance on "Family Asylum Claims" added.
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Guidance on 'medical evidence in asylum claims' added.
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Added operational note on 'considering children's individual protection needs'.
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Added guidance on Hague Convention cases.
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Added the guidance on family reunion immigration rules.
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Added guidance for pending prosecutions in asylum claims.
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"Inadmissibility: third country cases" added to collection.
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Guidance on disclosure of asylum information to third parties added.
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Updated guidance on asylum process
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Added guidance on sexual identity issues in the asylum claim
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First published.