Some 12,000 asylum seekers to the UK are to be considered for refugee status without face-to-face interviews.
A 10-page Home Office questionnaire will decide the cases of people from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Libya, Syria and Yemen who applied before last July.
The move aims to reduce the asylum backlog which Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to end this year.
The Home Office says this is not an asylum amnesty – but it will ‘streamline the system’ for five nationalities.
Applicants from these countries already have 95% of their asylum claims accepted, says the Home Office.
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