Assessing age for asylum applicants

Assessing age for asylum applicants: caseworker guidance - GOV.UK

Immigration staff guidance on assessing the age of an applicant when they claim to be a child.

Assessing the age of asylum applicants, Fact Sheet No 17

Assessing the age of asylum applicants. The information presented in ... deficiencies in the age assessment procedure of a Somali applicant.

Assessing the age of asylum applicants

The fact sheet presents information on minor applicants going through the asylum procedure, as extracted from the Asylum Report 2023.

The age assessment process - Coram Children's Legal Centre

The age of an unaccompanied child is extremely important. It determines a child's access to education and support, effects the way in which their asylum claim ...

The assessment of age in undocumented migrants

To date, there is no good information on the application of this technique to age assessment of asylum seekers. It has to be concluded that at present there ...

The Use of Biological Methods in Asylum Age Assessments - POST

Age assessments are used in the asylum system to determine whether an asylum seeker is under 18 years old. They are needed where an individual's ...

Age assessments: what happens when a child arrives in the UK?

The initial age assessment stage in the asylum process is crucial. If a young person is found to be an adult on arrival, they will be assigned a ...

WMA Statement on Medical Age Assessment of Unaccompanied ...

The WMA asserts that, in cases where medical age assessment is unavoidable, the health and safety and dignity of the young asylum seeker must be the highest ...

Is Home Office guidance on assessing the age of children seeking ...

The guidance said that if officials think that an asylum seeker's 'physical appearance/demeanour very strongly suggests that they are significantly over 18 ...

Age Assessment of Minors - Asylum Insight

The two age determination officers will come to independent conclusions about whether the asylum seeker is likely to be an adult or likely to be a minor. If ...

Age assessment of asylum seekers: where have we got to?

This article examines the role of NAAB and explains the current state of the processes involved in the age assessment of asylum seekers.

The Use of Biological Methods in Asylum Age Assessments

4 The UK Government has expressed a concern that the current approach to determine the age of asylum seekers is “highly subjective”.5 It states that it can lead ...

Biological evaluation methods to assist in assessing the age of ...

1.14. It is key that methods used for age assessment have a low chance of misclassification, that is a low chance of a minor (age under 18) ...

Social workers should not assess asylum seeker ages for Home ...

Social workers should not assess asylum seeker ages for Home Office, professional body says. Home Office is recruiting them for national assessment board.

Age assessment of unaccompanied minor asylum seekers - UDI

If you are seeking asylum as an unaccompanied minor and UDI is in doubt as to whether you really are under 18 years of age, you will be asked to undergo an ...

Age Assessment for Asylum Seekers - Osbornes Law

Our lawyers specialise in age assessment challenges. We have significant experience in overturning negative age assessment decisions and issuing judicial ...

The Use of Age Assessment in the Context of Child Migration - NCBI

Anecdotal reports suggest migrant children at the US border have had to undergo age assessment procedures to prove to immigration officials ...

Use imaging to check age, say UK government advisers - The BMJ

Dental and skeletal imaging can be used to help determine the age of unaccompanied children who are claiming asylum and should supplement the current age ...

Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children: Age Assessment Toolkit

They support children/young people not receiving statutory advocacy services, asylum seekers aged 15-23 with specific issues about education and asylum seekers ...

Asylum age assessments: key advice for social workers

Any assessment should take into account relevant factors from the child's medical, family and social history, and the decision-maker should seek ...