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Asylum: Employment

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2 April 2025

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14 April 2025 · Answer

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Asylum

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14 April 2025

Asylum

Summary

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to review the policy to prevent asylum seekers from working while awaiting a decision on their applications; and what assessment they have made of providing this opportunity to applicants who are victims

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  1. 2 April 2025

    Written question

    To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to review the policy to prevent asylum seekers from working while awaiting a decision on their applications; and what assessment they have made of providing this opportunity to applicants who are victims

    Source: Lords

  2. 14 April 2025

    Answer

    Asylum seekers who have had their claim outstanding for 12 months or more, through no fault of their own, can apply for permission to work in jobs on the Immigration Salary List.Where a victim of modern slavery is seeking asylum, we may allow earlier perm...

    Source: Written answer

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