Asylum: Age Assurance
2026-07-07 · Home Office · 16997 · Official question
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what process will be available for a person seeking asylum to obtain, scrutinise, challenge or appeal a Facial Age Estimation result and any decision based on that result.
Answer
Assessing age is a complex task, and there is no single or a combination of techniques that are able to determine chronological age with precision.Previously, the Department explored other potential scientific and technological methods, such as the use of...