Guidance

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.

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Published 16 March 2023
Last updated 18 July 2025 show all updates
  1. 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.

  2. Replaced guidance.

  3. 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.

  4. First published.

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