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Ceasing asylum support: caseworker guidance

Immigration staff guidance on how and when to cease support following a change in a person’s immigration status or eligibility for asylum support.

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From:
UK Visas and Immigration
Published:
1 October 2009
Last updated:
9 March 2026
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  1. Updated to reflect the revised 42-day grace period applicable to individuals granted refugee status or other leave to remain.

  2. This guidance has been updated to expand the section on reinstatements or extensions of support.

  3. This guidance has been updated on page 15 to clarify the process for discontinuing support in failure to travel cases.

  4. Extensions and reinstatements of support section added.

  5. Updated the withdrawn asylum claims section to allow a right of appeal against the decision to cease support where the asylum claim has been withdrawn.

  6. Added new subsection on ceasing asylum support for those granted interim Discretionary Leave (KTT) or Temporary Permission to Stay (VTS) Leave.

  7. Guidance has been modernised and placed into the new guidance template. See 'Changes from last version of this guidance' for a full list of changes.

  8. Updated guidance.

  9. Updated guidance

  10. Updated document.

  11. First published.

Documents

Ceasing section 95 support instruction (accessible)

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Ceasing section 95 support instruction

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UK Visas and Immigration guidance to help staff make a decision about when stopping asylum support due to a change in immigration status or eligibility is appropriate and when it should not be ceased.

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