Reasons for refusing permission to work might include the following:

  • your asylum claim (or further submission on protection grounds) has not been outstanding for 12 months
  • the delay is entirely the result of your actions or inaction
  • the delay is partly due to your actions or inaction, and it is not appropriate to exercise discretion in your favour
  • there is evidence of criminality either in the UK or abroad which causes a delay in determining the asylum application - the reasons for delay could be due to Article 1(F) exclusion considerations or because the outcome of any prosecution is awaited
  • further submissions are not protection based and are instead based on Article 3 medical grounds or Article 8 family grounds where a valid charged application should have been made

There is no right of appeal against a decision to refuse permission to work.