Do you have any property inside the UK?
What is the value of your property?
Can you liquidate this asset?
Why not?
Do you have any land inside the UK?
What is the value of your land?
Can you liquidate this asset?
Why not?
Do you have any valuable jewellery?
What is the value of your valuable jewellery?
Can you liquidate this asset?
Why not?
Do you have a TV or DVD or electrical goods?
What is the value of the TV or DVD or electrical goods?
Can you liquidate this asset?
Why not?
Do you have a car or vehicle?
What is the value of your car or vehicle?
Can you liquidate this asset?
What is your driving license number?
Reduction
The destitution message on the front of the Asylum Support Application Form (ASF1) defines what destitution is: an applicant, or their dependants, who do not have adequate accommodation or means of obtaining it, even if other essential living needs are met or they have adequate accommodation but cannot meet essential living standards.
Destitution belongs to the language of desperation, along with starvation, thirst or nakedness. Dickens describes the slow agonies of want of those imprisoned for not being able to pay their bills. Someone can become destitute overnight - maybe in Dickens it would be through a bad business deal, gamble or loss of familial support - or through a series of losses over a longer period of time. But always one is reduced to a destitute condition. Its the end point of a process of loss, a point where someone is unable to provide for themselves and is totally dependant on the charity of others.
A series of questions in the Asylum Support Application Form (ASF1) interrogates the applicant on the status of their assets in a way that reflects the systematic reduction of personal resources associated with destitution. It treats it as a process of reduction, sculptural in its removal of material until the form of destitution is revealed, bare boned and naked. Destitution is visible. Some of the immigration process is defined by invisibility but the destitute are visible on the streets.