UK Immigration News

15 June 2009

The Government has announced that asylum applicants claiming to be from Palestine or Kuwait may in future be asked to have their language analysed. This will enable immigration officers to check whether these asylum seekers are in fact of different nationalities.

If applicants refuse to undergo language analysis, this refusal may be taken into account when deciding whether they have assisted in establishing the facts of their case.

The requirement for language analysis will remain in place for 11 months until April 2010, when it will be reviewed.

More information is provided in a Written Ministerial Statement, which you can download from the right side of this page.