Asylum: Identity Cards

(asked on 8th December 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average waiting time was for an Asylum Registration Card application to be processed by UKVI in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021.


Answered by
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Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 14th December 2021

An Application Registration Card (ARC) is produced as a routine part of the registration process for asylum applicants, and is not an immigration product in its own right which people apply for.

The system will produce and deliver an ARC within three days of the asylum screening taking place.

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