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<p>Over 500 migrants, the majority of whom are Iranian nationals, attempted to travel
to the UK on small vessels in 2018. The vast majority of those attempts were made
in the last three months of the year.</p><p>All asylum claims made in the UK are processed,
managed and decided in line with Home Office policy, guidance and relevant case law
and legislation. This supports an efficient and effective asylum process for the UK
and ensures that asylum claims are handled in a manner that is appropriate to the
individual, including ensuring any reasonable adjustments and safe-guarding needs
are considered.</p><p>All asylum claimants must be treated with dignity and fairness
regardless of their age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, race, gender, sexual
orientation, gender identity, religion or belief.</p><p>An asylum claim will be registered
where an individual makes a particularised protection claim for the first time, in
person and in their own right. That does not mean that the UK will always be responsible
for making a substantive decision.</p><p>As part of that process, there is a need
to assess whether what a person is saying amounts to a protection claim and if so,
whether the claim is admissible to the decision-making process. Inadmissibility is
a concept by which the Home Office can decline to consider an asylum claim because
the individual already enjoys sufficient protection in another country, or another
country is responsible for considering the claim.</p><p>We are unable to state how
many asylum seekers arriving on the Kent coast since 1 October 2018 have had their
claims registered and processed using standard procedures, as we do not comment on
the status of cases once they have claimed asylum.</p>
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