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Myanmar (Burma): country policy and information notes

Guidance used by UK Visas and Immigration to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications.

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Country policy and information notes (previously known as country information and guidance reports) are used by UK Visas and Immigration officials to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications.

The notes also give information on asylum seekers’ countries of origin.

Published 9 December 2016
Last updated 6 July 2023 + show all updates
  1. Updated guidance on Rohingya and critics of the military published.

  2. Information on critics of the military regime updated.

  3. Added 'Country policy and information note Myanmar (Burma): critics of the military regime'.

  4. Removed 'Country policy and information note: 2021 coup and protests, Burma, March 2021' document as out of date.

  5. New country policy and information note on 2021 coup and protests, March 2021.

  6. Updated information on Rohingya.

  7. New country policy and information note on critics of the government, January 2019.

  8. Removed obsolete guidance: country information and guidance: prison conditions, Burma, November 2015.

  9. Added country policy and information note: Rohingya, Burma November 2017.

  10. Updated guidance:critics of the government, Burma, March 2017.

  11. First published.