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Streamlined asylum processing for children: caseworker guidance

How immigration staff should make asylum decisions under streamlined asylum processing.

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Streamlined asylum processing for children’s casework

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Guidance for UK Visas and Immigration staff on temporary changes to speed up asylum processing for children. These changes are being trialled from 16 March 2023.

Updates to this page

Published 16 March 2023
Last updated 20 December 2024 + show all updates
  1. Replaced guidance.

  2. Revisions have been made to this guidance to: incorporate changes to streamlined asylum processing; remove references to the differentiation policy which was paused in the July 2023 Immigration Rules changes; update on when a statement of evidence form is not required.

  3. First published.

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