Asylum
(asked on 29th February 2016) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what qualifications are required for Immigration Officers who decide the success or failure of asylum applications.
This question was answered on 7th March 2016
The Home Office does not employ Immigration Officers to assess asylum claims. Staff employed to make asylum decisions are either Executive Officers or Higher Executive Officers with a minimum educational requirement of 2 GCE A Level passes A-C and 5 GCSE passes including Mathematics and English.