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.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Published: 1 October 2009
• Last updated: 19 August 2024 — 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.

Published 1 October 2009
Last updated 19 August 2024 + show all updates

1. 19 August 2024

   Updated the withdrawn asylum claims section to allow a right of appeal against the decision to cease support where the asylum claim has been withdrawn.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. 13 July 2023

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

3. 28 June 2022

   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. 11 September 2015

   Updated guidance.

5. 23 April 2015

   Updated guidance

6. 16 July 2014

   Updated document.

7. 1 October 2009

   First published.