Guidance

El Salvador: country policy and information notes

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

Documents

Country policy and information note: fear of gangs, El Salvador, December 2025

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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.

Updates to this page

Published 24 February 2020
Last updated 12 December 2025 show all updates
  1. Published an updated version of the country and policy information note on fear of gangs, El Salvador.

  2. Country policy and information note: actors of protection, El Salvador, removed.

  3. Added version 4.0 of country policy and information note: fear of gangs, El Salvador, December 2022.

  4. Added new document: Country policy and information note actors of protection, El Salvador, February 2021

  5. Updated country policy and information note on gangs for January 2021.

  6. First published.

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