Guidance

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
Published
1 October 2009
Last updated
1319 JulyAugust 20232024 — See all updates

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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

Published 1 October 2009
Last updated 1319 JulyAugust 20232024 + show all updates

  1. Updated the withdrawn asylum claims section to allow a right of appeal against the decision to cease support where the asylum claim has been withdrawn.

  2. Added new subsection on ceasing asylum support for those granted interim Discretionary Leave (KTT) or Temporary Permission to Stay (VTS) Leave.

  3. 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.

  4. Updated guidance.

  5. Updated guidance

  6. Updated document.

  7. First published.

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