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Has the new asylum model improved the Home Office process?
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Does the new asylum model make the Home Office asylum application process more fair and humane?
The current asylum applicant process is called the New Asylum Model (NAM) and was introduced in 2007.
NAM differs from the old system, National Asylum Support System (NASS) in that it contains new measures:
* No longer interviewed at port of entry by immigation but by specialist teams.
* A caseowner who deals with the entire application and a catergorisation system.
* Time frames in which cases would be dealt with: 30 days for processing and to have integrated or removed 90 per cent of asylum seekers within six months of an initial application by the end of 2011.
Some have argued this, and other changes, have improved the system. Others, on the other hand, debate how fair and humane the actual process is:
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