Editorial note for the desk: the source submitted for rewriting — filed under the headline "The UK's contradictory Sudan policy leaves refugees locked out", attributed to The New Humanitarian — arrived as an RSS stub. The payload included the headline, the publisher name, a destination link, and the language tag (auto), but no article body, dateline, byline, quoted material, statistics, dates, programme names, or official-source references.

Under Passport File's house rules, a rewrite must (a) keep quotas, caps, thresholds and deadlines numerically exact, (b) attribute at least one direct quotation from the source material, and (c) avoid adding information absent from the source. None of those conditions can be satisfied from a one-line headline alone. Producing 480–900 words on UK asylum processing for Sudanese nationals, the safe routes list, resettlement quotas, or Home Office casework figures would require fabricating facts the editorial policy explicitly forbids.

What can be confirmed from the supplied data:

• Country of the policy in question: United Kingdom
• Subject population: Sudanese refugees / Sudan nationals
• Publisher of the original reporting: The New Humanitarian
• Framing of the original headline: "contradictory Sudan policy" that "leaves refugees locked out"
• Language of the source feed: auto-detected, presented without translation metadata

What cannot be confirmed without the article text, and therefore cannot appear in a Passport File rewrite:

• Specific Home Office programme or visa route at issue
• Effective or announced date of the rule in question
• Any cap, quota, eligibility threshold, or processing-time figure
• The names, titles and direct quotations of any officials, charity representatives, or applicants cited by The New Humanitarian
• The official UK government source (gov.uk page, written statement, or Home Office guidance) that anchors the change

Recommended next step for the editor: re-fetch the full article body from The New Humanitarian via the link carried in the RSS stub, then resubmit the complete source text to the rewriting pipeline. Once the body is available, the desk can produce a 480–900-word article in the requested Migration Policy Institute / CIC News register, opening with the rule or programme that changed, the country, and the effective date, and quoting at least one named source directly.