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After your screening, the Home Office will review your case and decide whether it can be considered in the UK.

You鈥檒l be sent an asylum registration card (ARC) to your UK address, unless you鈥檝e been detained.

You might also be sent an asylum questionnaire. If you get one, fill it in and return it by the deadline - the address and deadline are written on the letter that comes with the questionnaire. If you cannot fill it in, call the Home Office asylum team. Their phone number is on the letter.

The Home Office will contact you about your asylum claim. If your contact details change, you must .

If your case can be considered in the UK, it will be given to a caseworker.

If your case cannot be considered in the UK

You may be sent to a safe country that will consider your asylum claim. This might happen if you鈥檝e travelled to the UK through a safe third country or you have a connection with another country that you could claim asylum in.

Generally, a safe country is one that:

• you鈥檙e not a citizen of
• you would not be harmed in
• would not send you on to another country where you would be harmed

If the Home Office cannot place you in another safe country, your case will be considered in the UK and given to a caseworker.

Caseworkers

You may have an asylum interview with your caseworker. They鈥檒l make a decision about your application. They鈥檒l also explain the asylum process and tell you what to do while you wait for an asylum decision.

You鈥檒l need to go to regular meetings with your caseworker. These are known as 鈥榬eporting events鈥�.

Tell your caseworker if you have any special needs, for example if you have a disability or need medication.

Your ARC

The ARC shows you鈥檝e applied for asylum. You can use it to:

• show who you are
• show whether you have permission to work
• get health or education services

You must take your ARC with you when you go to your reporting events.

If you do not have your ARC

Contact the Home Office using the online form if you have any problems - for example:

• you鈥檝e not got your ARC through the post
• you鈥檝e lost it
• it鈥檚 been stolen
• it鈥檚 expired

You鈥檒l be asked to give your Home Office or port reference number, and your ARC reference (if you know it).

Being detained

You may be detained at an immigration removal centre while you wait for a decision on your application.

You鈥檒l either be:

• released if you get permission to stay in the UK
• held until you鈥檙e removed from the UK if you do not get permission to stay

You can also be detained and removed if it鈥檚 decided that another country is responsible for offering you asylum.

You may be able to appeal against the decision.

When you will not be detained

You will not usually be detained if:

• you鈥檙e a child
• you鈥檙e elderly
• you鈥檙e a family with children
• you鈥檙e pregnant
• you鈥檙e accepted as being a victim of trafficking
• you鈥檙e able to provide independent evidence of torture
• you have a mental or physical condition that cannot be managed or would present a risk to others in an immigration removal centre

Cancel your asylum claim

Email the Home Office as soon as possible if you want to stop your asylum claim. For example, because you get another type of permission to stay.