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Exclusion from protection grounds: caseworker guidance

Immigration staff guidance on assessing whether someone is excluded from Asylum or Humanitarian Protection.

Updates to this page

From:
UK Visas and Immigration
Published:
1 December 2020
Last updated:
11 November 2025
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  1. Changes to reflect Part Suitability replacing Part 9: grounds for refusal of the Immigration Rules.

  2. Appendix Adult Dependent Relative added in the ‘Introduction’ section, in line with Immigration Rules changes.

  3. Updated to reflect changes to paragraphs 339D and 339GB of the Immigration Rules.

  4. Updated guidance.

  5. Updated guidance for use on or after 11 October 2021.

  6. Minor amendment to the introduction to clarify that some of this guidance applies to family reunion applications.

  7. First published.

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Part suitability: exclusion from asylum or humanitarian protection (accessible)

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Part suitability: exclusion from asylum or humanitarian protection

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UK Visas and Immigration guidance on how staff assess the following:

  • whether an application for entry clearance, permission to enter or permission to stay should be refused on the grounds that the applicant is excluded from protection, or would have been excluded if they had made a protection claim, or if their previous claim was determined without consideration of whether they should be excluded from protection
  • whether someone’s entry clearance or permission should be cancelled on the grounds that they are excluded from protection, or would have been excluded if they had made a protection claim, or if their previous claim was determined without consideration of whether they should be excluded from protection

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