UK Home Office
Asylum refusal citing a Morocco country policy and information note (CPIN)
Withdrawn · 14 July 2026
What was fabricated
The Home Office refused a Moroccan woman's asylum claim citing a country policy and information note (CPIN) on Morocco dated July 2021 as authority that Morocco would be safe for her return. The Upper Tribunal could not locate the document and the Home Office's own country policy and information team was unable to confirm it existed; the judge held "it appears that no such CPIN has ever existed." No CPIN on Morocco has been published since 2017. The First-tier Tribunal had already dismissed her appeal relying on the same non-existent document. Asked to produce it, the Home Office first sent a link to an archive where it could not be found, then produced a different, unpublished internal guidance document (a country information note, or CIN) that had never been disclosed to the court — and which does not conclude Morocco is safe for the forcible return of women in her position, recording instead that 40,000 child marriages were granted by exemption in 2018 (one-fifth of all marriages that year) and that Moroccan law does not explicitly criminalise marital rape.
What happened as a result
Upper Tribunal decision of 14 July 2026; reported 28 July 2026. The judge found relying on a document that did not exist was "analogous to relying on bogus evidence" and determined the issue to be a procedural irregularity, so the refusal and the First-tier decision upholding it do not stand. He said the refusal letter "bears hallmarks consistent with the use of artificial intelligence" and that if the CPIN references were an AI hallucination "that would represent an extremely serious failing on the part of the respondent." The AI attribution is the judge's suggestion and is not a finding; the non-existence of the document is established. The woman's case continues.
Sources
- https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/28/home-office-used-ai-hallucinated-information-to-refuse-asylum-claim-judge-suggests
- https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/home-office-accused-of-using-hallucinated-evidence
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