An office of the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) which receives personal applications from asylum applicants who have entered the UK and carries out fingerprinting, photographing and “screening” interviews which record identity and family details of the applicant, the route taken to the UK and the documentation used.

The asylum screening unit  in Croydon is the entry point into the asylum system. It is here that in-country asylum seekers make their initial asylum claims and where immigration officers conduct scree [..]