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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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.
Updates to this page
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This guidance has been updated on page 15 to clarify the process for discontinuing support in failure to travel cases.
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Extensions and reinstatements of support section added.
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Updated the withdrawn asylum claims section to allow a right of appeal against the decision to cease support where the asylum claim has been withdrawn.
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Added new subsection on ceasing asylum support for those granted interim Discretionary Leave (KTT) or Temporary Permission to Stay (VTS) Leave.
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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.
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Updated guidance.
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Updated guidance
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Updated document.
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First published.