When someone's asylum case is decided in their favour, it should feel like a turning point. And it is. But it also comes with a deadline. Most people have around 28 days to leave their asylum accommodation, find somewhere to live, apply for Universal Credit, open a bank account, register with a GP, and begin navigating a housing system that is genuinely difficult even for people who have been through it before.
Many people fall into homelessness during this period, or end up in housing that is unsuitable, because there is very little structured support for exactly this gap. There are organisations doing important work at the early stages of the asylum process. Very few focus on what comes after a positive decision, when someone finally has the right to be here and almost no runway to act on it.
That is the moment we try to help with.
