United Kingdom · Question · Written question
HL HL6467
Asylum: Employment
Introduced
2 April 2025
Last action
14 April 2025 · Answer
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Asylum
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14 April 2025
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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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
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...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-04-02/HL6467
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1791916
- uk · wq-1791916 · source updated 14 April 2025