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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
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Waiting times
While you wait
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ARC card
📱
eVisa (BRP)
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Reporting & bail
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Detention
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SAR — Subject Access Request
Decision & next steps
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Appeal
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Further Submissions
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After you get status
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Citizenship
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Path to passport
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Reform 2026
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