Case File 1 / UK asylum system
A person gives testimony through an interpreter. The English rendering becomes the record. That record shapes credibility, casework, and the decision.
The UK asylum process depends on interpreted interviews. The applicant speaks in one language, an interpreter renders that speech in English, and the English version becomes the document used by caseworkers, lawyers, tribunals, and AI tools.
The original-language testimony may remain only as audio. Once the interpreted English is treated as the applicant's own words, the interpreter's choices and the conditions that produced them disappear from view.
Procurement determines who is available. Qualifications and dialect matching determine what can be heard. The interview format determines what can be clarified. Transcription determines what survives. Each stage can change meaning before a decision-maker reads the case.
See where AI tools now enter the UK asylum processing chain, what documents they act on, and how far those documents sit from the applicant's original testimony.
The case file brings together field notes and analysis of interpreter procurement, qualification standards, transcript reliability, and the legal consequences of meaning loss.
RECORD is a board game and simulation method that makes the hidden process visible: speech becomes interpretation, interpretation becomes record, and the record becomes judgment.