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start
new
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🛡️
Asylum & status
Asylum process
🎯
Test: your asylum chances?
🧭
Leaving Russia in 2026
🌍
Where to claim: USA / DE / ES / UK
📝
Claiming asylum
❓
Screening questions
🎙️
Substantive interview
✉️
Contact Home Office
⏳
Waiting times
While you wait
💳
ARC card
📱
eVisa (BRP)
📍
Reporting & bail
⛔
Detention
🔍
SAR — Subject Access Request
Decision & next steps
⚖️
Appeal
📑
Further Submissions
✅
After you get status
🇬🇧
Citizenship
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Path to passport
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Reform 2026
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Voluntary return
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Life in UK
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