Streamlined asylum processing for children: caseworker guidance
How immigration staff should make asylum decisions under streamlined asylum processing.
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Guidance on streamlined asylum processing (SAP) within children’s asylum casework. Includes information on making asylum decisions under the streamlined asylum process and changes to how we implement family tracing. References to SAP in this guidance relate only to the children’s casework process.
Updates to this page
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Updated the high grant nationalities in scope section, so that the policy no longer includes Afghanistan, and updated to reflect the fact that asylum decisions on Syrian cases are no longer on pause and can be considered under the children's streamlined asylum process again.
Update history
2026-05-18 01:00
Revisions have been made to this guidance to: update the high grant nationalities in scope so that the policy no longer includes South Sudan and Syria; add further clarification on the approach when the Statement of Evidence Form is received during the process; and remove a section on targeted interviews.
2025-07-18 01:00
Updated the high grant nationalities in scope section, so that the policy no longer includes Afghanistan, and updated to reflect the fact that asylum decisions on Syrian cases are no longer on pause and can be considered under the children’s streamlined asylum process again.
2024-12-20 12:28
Replaced guidance.
2023-08-03 09:43
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.
2023-03-16 15:00
First published.