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and social inclusion. To provide an efficient and effective work permit system to meet economic and skills requirements, and fair, fast and effective programmes for dealing with visitors, citizenship and long term immigration applicants and those seeking refugee or asylum. To facilitate travel by UK
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NASS provides certain types of support to people seeking asylum during the time that their applications are under way, while not itself judging the asylum applications, which is a responsibility of other parts of
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NASS has a Director (presently Jeremy Oppenheim) and divides its work into several different areas (present leader in parentheses):
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is independent of NASS and its successors but assists and supports asylum seekers in its communications with them.
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Accommodation 2005 Programme and Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children Reform Projects (Brian Kinney)
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http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/assets/0001/5894/july2004.pdf
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NASS describes its role as part of the "6th aim" of the
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Central Information and advice Unit (Susan Hadland).
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