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9.35Paragraphs 8.7 and 8.8 of section 8 of the Standard Civil Contract Specification 2013 (amended in July 2015 to include services to victims of slavery, servitude and forced labour) divide work in the immigration category into asylum and immigration matter types.
9.36It is important that you correctly report open and claim matters as asylum or immigration, both as part of your contractual obligation but also because the funding limits are different. The contract says:
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8.7 For the purposes of Controlled Work, a Matter should proceed and be reported under this Specification as an ‘Asylum Matter’ where:
(a)it relates to civil legal services in respect of the rights set out in paragraph 30 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 of the Act (‘Immigration: rights to enter and remain’);
(b)it relates to an asylum issue and is proceeding under paragraph 24 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act (‘Special Immigration Appeals Commission’).
8.8 For the purposes of Controlled Work, a Matter should proceed and be reported as an ‘Immigration Matter’ where it relates to civil legal services in respect of the rights mentioned in:
(a)paragraph 25 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act (‘Immigration: detention’);
(b)paragraph 26 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act (‘Immigration: temporary admission’);
(c)paragraph 27 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act (‘Immigration: residence etc restrictions);
(d)paragraph 28 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act (‘Immigration: victims of domestic violence and indefinite leave to remain’);
(e)paragraph 29 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act (‘Immigration: victims of domestic violence and residence cards’);
(f)paragraph 32 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act (Victims of trafficking in human beings’) insofar as civil legal services relate to an application by the individual for leave to enter, or to remain in, the United Kingdom;
(g)paragraph 24 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act (‘Special Immigration Appeals Commission’) where it relates to an immigration issue;
(h)paragraph 45 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act (‘Terrorism prevention and investigation measures etc’);
(i)paragraph 32A(1) of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act (‘Victims of slavery, servitude or forced or compulsory labour’) in so far as civil legal services relate to an application by the individual for leave to enter, or to remain
in, the United Kingdom.