Glossary

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• Accomodated
• Age disputed
• Application Registration Card
• Article 3 ECHR
• Asylum
• Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT)
• Asylum appellant
• Asylum Screening Unit
• Asylum seeker
• Asylum Support
• UK Border Agency (previously Border and Immigration Agency (BIA))
• UKBA Support (see Asylum Support)
• Case Owner
• Case Resolution Directorate
• Certificate of Identity
• Certificate of Travel
• Certified - 'clearly unfounded'
• Common Travel Area
• Convention Travel document (CTD)
• Discretionary leave (DL)
• Dispersal
• ECHR
• Eligible children
• Eurodac
• European Economic Area (EEA)
• Exceptional leave to remain (ELR)
• Executive agency
• Failed asylum seeker
• Former relevant children
• Former unaccompanied asylum seeking child
• Further Education
• Higher Education
• Humanitarian protection (HP)
• Illegal entrant
• Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND)
• Immigration judge
• Immigration Removal Centre
• Immigration Rules
• Immigration Service (IS)
• In-country applicant
• Indefinite leave to remain (ILR)
• Judicial review
• Lawfully present
• Leave to enter
• Leave to remain (LTR)
• Leaving care support
• STRONG>Legal representative
• Legal Services Commission (LSC)
• Limited leave
• Local Safeguarding Children's Board (LSCB)
• 'Looked after' children
• Merton Compliant
• National Asylum Support Service (NASS)
• National Referral Mechanism
• New Asylum Model
• Non-compliance refusal
• Ordinarily resident
• Overstayer
• Panel of Advisors
• Parental responsibility
• Pathway Plan
• Port applicant
• Public funds
• Qualifying children
• Refugee
• Refugee Leave
• Relevant children
• Removal centre
• Separated asylum seeking child
• Smuggling
• Student Support
• Subject to immigration control
• Temporary admission (TA)
• The 'Refugee Convention'
• Trafficking
• Unaccompanied asylum seeking child
• United Kingdom Human Trafficking Centre (UKHTC)
• White list countries