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Asylum investigation – what happens then?

After you have applied for asylum you and your parents will be summoned to an asylum investigation. You will usually only have one meeting.

As a child, am I allowed to talk to the Swedish Migration Board staff?


Yes, if you want to, and your parents agree to it, you can talk to the staff.

If I don´t want to talk to the staff, do I have to?


No, you don´t have to talk to the staff if you don´t want to. If you don´t want to talk to the staff they will talk to your parents. The staff will ask your parents questions about you.

How does an asylum investigation work?


The asylum investigation is made at the Swedish Migration Board and for each adult it takes between two and three hours. For children it is usually quicker, because the staff don´t ask children as many questions as adults.

During the asylum investigation you can tell your story and answer questions, for example about:

  • yourselves
  • who the members of your family are
  • how you are feeling
  • where you are from
  • your trip to Sweden
  • what your situation was like in your home country
  • what happened to you
  • why you left your home country
  • why you can´t go back home.

It is important that you tell us everything that has happened to you. It is important for the Swedish Migration Board to know the reasons why you cannot stay in your home country, not just your parents´ reasons.

Your stories are written down in a record. A record is notes about what you have said during the investigation.
 

Who will be there?


Often there will be a person from the Swedish Migration Board who is in charge of the investigation. Sometimes there will be another person who writes down what is said. If you have a public counsel he or she will be there. There will also be an interpreter in the room. The interpreter is not an employee of the Swedish Migration Board: he or she is from a company that provides interpreters.

When the staff talks to you usually one parent will be there too. You can talk to the staff alone if you want to and your parents agree to it.

Sidan senast uppdaterad: 2011-10-25