Home Office written question – answered at on 27 October 2025.
Lee Anderson
Reform UK, Ashfield
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what process her Department follows after an asylum seekers’ claim has been rejected.
Alex Norris
The Minister of State, Home Department
Asylum claims can be refused with a right of appeal to the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) or refused without a right of appeal (certified). Those who do not exercise, or do not have, a right of appeal are expected to leave the United Kingdom voluntarily or can be subject to enforced removal. If a claim is certified without a right of appeal, there is an avenue to apply for a Judicial Review.
A claimant may introduce fresh evidence during the appeal process. Even if they exhaust the appeal process there is still an opportunity to present fresh evidence as “further submissions” to which the Home Office must give due consideration.
Once all legal barriers have been removed the claimant can be subject to enforced removal.
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