Asylum: Afghanistan

(asked on 29th August 2025) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications from Afghan women who have been denied asylum status at initial decision since the fall of Kabul in 2021 have subsequently (a) appealed that decision and (b) had that appeal granted.


Answered by
Alex Norris Portrait
Alex Norris
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 8th September 2025

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum appeals lodged and determined, by nationality and sex, is published in tables Asy_D06 and Asy_D07, respectively, of the asylum detailed datasets. Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbooks. The latest data relates to 2023 Q1 (January to March). Appeals data for April 2023 onwards is not available due to ongoing work on a new case working system. Updated data will be included in a future edition of the Immigration system statistics release.

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