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<p>The Home Office has not made an estimate of this cost.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Asylum
seekers can work in the UK if their claim has been outstanding for 12 months, through
no fault of their own. Those allowed to work are restricted to jobs on the Shortage
Occupation List, which is published by the Home Office and based on expert advice
from the Migration Advisory Committee.</p><p> </p><p>It is important to distinguish
between those who need protection and those seeking to work here, who can apply for
a work visa under the Immigration Rules. Our wider policy could be undermined if migrants
bypassed work visa Rules by lodging unfounded asylum claims here.</p><p> </p><p>As
part of the plans to speed up Asylum decision making, over the last 18 months, UK
Visas and Immigration have increased the number of Asylum decision makers and support
staff as part of a rolling recruitment campaign and mobilised a transformation programme
that seeks to simplify, streamline and digitise processes.</p>
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