Home Department written question – answered at on 12 March 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps she is taking to support failed Iranian asylum seekers (a) to obtain travel documents given the closure of the Iranian embassy in London and (b) whilst returns to Iran have been suspended through the Choices programme.
Refugee Action Choices has not suspended support to Iranian nationals who need assistance to return home.
However, as there is no Iranian diplomatic mission in the United Kingdom, there are limits to what support we can provide where they do not hold a valid passport to return.
Iranian nationals who do not hold passports should contact the Interior Ministry in Tehran, or any other Iranian diplomatic mission in another country, in order to obtain a travel document to enable them to return to Iran.
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