Please provide how many FLR (M) applications were received in July
2012?
There were a total of 3,448 FLR (M) applications received in the period from 1 to 31
July 2012.
All figures quoted are management information which has been subject to internal quality checks.
Figures relate to main applicants.
Figures relate to cases raised (received) between 1 to 31 July 2012.
How many of these applications were received before 8th July 2012?
There were a total of 2,524 FLR (M) applications received between 1 to 7 July 2012.
All figures quoted are management information which has been subject to internal quality checks.
Figures relate to main applicants.
Figures relate to cases raised (received) between 1 to 7 July 2012.
From the applications received before 8th July 2012, how many have been processed and despatched and how many applications are pending to be decided. Out of pending applications how many applications are pending for Biometrics.
Of the applications received in the period 1 to 7 July 2012, a total of 497 cases have been decided, and 2,027 are pending a decision. Of the pending cases 64 are awaiting biometric enrolment.
All figures quoted are management information which has been subject to internal quality checks.
Figures relate to main applicants.
Figures relate to cases raised (received) between 1 to 31 July 2012.
3:38 am, Thu 22 Nov 2012
‘100,000 letters left unopened’ by UK Border Agency
UK Border Agency (UKBA) staff dealt with a backlog of immigration cases so inefficiently that at one point 100,000 pieces of post were unopened.
In March 2011, there were 147,000 unfinished cases that were passed to an audit unit tasked with dealing with the backlog.
More than 150 boxes of post, including letters from applicants, MPs and lawyers, lay unopened.
In a sample of 135 files examined as part of the inspection, each case had lain dormant for an average of 87 months before they were reopened in 2010 for consideration.
The shortest period of inactivity was six months and the longest period of inactivity was 17 years and nine months.
A total of 115 cases were found to have entered the UK illegally, and there were only 10 cases where active efforts had been made to trace absconders.
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2:59 am, Thu 22 Nov 2012
UK Border Agency condemned over immigration backlog
UK Border Agency (UKBA) staff dealt with a backlog of immigration cases so inefficiently that at one point 100,000 pieces of post were unopened, a report said today.
Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration John Vine found that security checks were not properly carried out on old cases and that workers had failed to check the records of other Government departments.
Applications were placed into an archive of unresolved cases after “very minimal work”, despite the agency assuring MPs that “exhaustive” checks had been carried out, he concluded.
