Atheist, non-religious and Humanist asylum claims

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Dear Home Office,

Please provide statistics indicating, for each of the last 5 years, the number of claims made on the basis of the claimant being Atheist, non-religious, agnostic or Humanist, and the outcomes of those claims where there has been a final outcome. Also breakdown those claims by the claimants home state, and provide the number of the claims which have resulted in a successful appeal.

Please provide the guidance provided and used by the Home Office to judge the religious merit of these claims, and a list of external organisations or advisers used to create this guidance.

Please provide the guidance used by the Home Office regarding apostasy in Islamic states, and a list of external organisations or advisers used to create this guidance.

Please indicate if the issue of publicly declared apostasy for Islamic claimants from states where religious persecution is considered to take by the Home Office is reviewed without reference to the merit of the individuals claim to a new religious status. Please confirm if this is automatically considered.

Kind Regards,

Sean Brawley

FOI Requests, Home Office

Dear Mr. Brawley,

Thank you for contacting the Home Office with your request.

This email has been assigned to a caseworker case ref 47270. We will aim to send you a full response by 08/03/2018 which is twenty working days from the date we received your request.

If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact us.

Thank you,

J. Sisulu
FOI Requests
Home Office

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Dear Mr Brawley

 

Please find attached a letter in response to your FOI request of 8
February.

 

Yours sincerely

 

CCT FOI

Customer Performance and Improvement

 

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Dear CCT FOI,
Thanks for your response.

I am happy to narrow my request to:

1) What advisers or documents are available to assist caseworkers in determining what is plausible when assessing convention reasons, beyond that linked in the document Asylum Policy Instruction?
2) Given that the section on religious conversion makes reference only Christianity, what advice is available to assessors to ensure this guidance is not inappropriately applied to conversions to non-religious or informal religious traditions?
3) Can you confirm if you have engaged with any non-religious groups in developing guidance in the past?
4) In what format is data on asylum claims outcomes held and how are overall outcomes for different cases measured and collated for quality control and review purposes? A brief explanation will suffice as I am surprised none of the above can be answered without manually checking all individual records.

Kind regards,

Sean Brawley

FOI Responses, Home Office

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Dear Home Office,
Dear CCT FOI,
Thanks for your response.

I am happy to narrow my request to:

1) What advisers or documents are available to assist caseworkers in determining what is plausible when assessing convention reasons, beyond that linked in the document Asylum Policy Instruction?
2) Given that the section on religious conversion makes reference only Christianity, what advice is available to assessors to ensure this guidance is not inappropriately applied to conversions to non-religious or informal religious traditions?
3) Can you confirm if you have engaged with any non-religious groups in developing guidance in the past?
4) In what format is data on asylum claims outcomes held and how are overall outcomes for different cases measured and collated for quality control and review purposes? A brief explanation will suffice as I am surprised none of the above can be answered without manually checking all individual records.

Kind regards,

Sean Brawley

FOI Requests, Home Office

Mr Brawley,

Thank you for contacting the Home Office with your request.

This has been assigned to a caseworker (case ref 47563). We will aim to send you a full response by 03/04/2018 which is twenty working days from the date we received your request.

If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact us.

Thank you,

J Douglas
FOI Requests
Home Office

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Dear Mr Brawley

 

FOI 47563

 

Please find attached a letter in response to your FOI request of 1 March
2018.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

CCT FOI

Customer Performance & Improvement

 

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