Guidance

Conducting asylum interviews: caseworker guidance

Immigration staff guidance on conducting asylum interviews.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Published: 31 March 2014
• Last updated: 16 October 2025
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  1. 16 October 2025

     Published version 10.0 of this guidance, a full list of changes can be found in the guide.

  2. 28 June 2022

     Guidance updated. Details of changes are provided on page 7.

  3. 7 June 2021

     Uploaded new version of 'Asylum interviews' guidance PDF

  4. 6 June 2019

     Updated guidance published.

  5. 6 March 2015

     Updated guidance.

  6. 31 March 2014

     First published.

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Asylum interviews

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UK Visas and Immigration guidance on how staff carry out effective asylum interviews to obtain relevant information to establish, as far as possible, whether the claimant meets the requirements for an asylum or human rights claim to succeed.