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What is a Home Office Asylum Questionnaire?
By Emilia Cieslak - Legal Associate

In February 2023, the Home Office announced that it was introducing asylum questionnaires in order to reduce the asylum backlog which currently stands at over 92,000 asylum claims made before 28 June 2022.  Despite...

 some reported problems with the asylum questionnaires, it seems that the Home Office will keep using asylum questionnaires in the future.  The purpose of this post is to answer some common questions...

What is Asylum in the UK?
By Richmond Chambers -

Asylum and asylum seekers have been near-constant features of the news cycle in the UK for several years now. With the recent introduction of the Nationality and Borders Act, the Rwanda policy and the government’s...

 proposed Illegal Migration Bill, the topic is set to remain highly relevant. Undeniably however, asylum and refugee law also remain widely misunderstood. This article will define the key terms associated...

Family reunion for children under threat in case of no deal brexit
By Richmond Chambers -

A no-deal Brexit could mean that the current system of family reunification could cease to exist. It seems that the Government has briefed the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR and advised them that in the event of...

 us crashing out of the EU without a deal, we will no longer seek to help when it comes to reuniting family members amongst asylum seekers. What is the family reunification system? The family reunification...

Credibility in asylum claims
By Richmond Chambers -

Lack of credibility is the most common reason for the refusal of an asylum claim in the UK.  In order to establish the validity of an asylum claim, the UN Refugee Convention of 1951 requires a ‘well-founded fear...

 of persecution’ on the basis of one of five convention reasons (race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership of a particular social group).  There are two aspects to the possession of a...

Unprecedented immigration case could open door to removal challenges
By Richmond Chambers -

A High Court ruling that a gay Ugandan woman was wrongly removed and should return to the UK could open the door to thousands of similar claims. The Home Office has said it will challenge the unprecedented verdict...

 after a judge in PN v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWHC 1616 (Admin) (24 June 2019) ruled that the decision to reject the woman’s claim for asylum was unlawful. The court...

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