Change to the way UKBA registers in-country asylum applications and further submissions on asylum claims.

As a result of changes made by the UK Border Agency (UKBA) on 14th October 2009 it is no longer possible for initial asylum applications to be made in Liverpool. Anyone wishing to make an asylum application, other than at the port where they first enter the UK, is required to do so in person at the asylum screening unit in Croydon.

People wishing to submit further representations concerning their existing asylum application where their circumstances have changed, or if they wish to make a fresh asylum claim, must now do so in person, rather than by post, at named locations. No travel costs will be paid to enable people to do this.

This will involve considerable hardship to people who are being required to travel large distances quite unnecessarily and without being provided with the funds to do so. The Refugee Council has written to UKBA protesting about these changes and asking that they be reversed. This briefing outlines the changes in detail.

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