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by boonbin » Tue Apr 27, 2010 1:41 am
Hi everyone, here to share some of the information to you all that i requested last month from FOI! Congratulation for you who has received your ILR, and for those still waiting, good luck to u and keep praying!!
Thank you for your enquiries of 29 March in which you have requested information regarding Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) applications. This has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please see the requested information below.
Enquiry One
Accordingly on the UKBA website settlement for ILR under 10 years long stay SET (O) application the waiting time is as follows:
• UKBA decides 95% of postal applications within six months;
Question 1 (A). Could you give a exact breakdown (actual numbers) of application received between 1st August 2009 and 28th February 2010 under `10 years continuous legal stay in UK' indefinite leave to remain category and how many of these applications (actual numbers) were decided within 6 months?
It is not possible to give this exact information as cases received on 28 February 2010 have not yet reached the 6 month target (having been submitted just over 1 month ago), therefore we have provided alternative information based on the number of cases dispatched in this time frame.
The total number of cases dispatched within this time period was 3030. The total number decided within 6 months was 2260. This is an overall achievement of 75% within 6 months (rounded up to nearest 1%).
Question 1 (B). An average waiting time after 6 months (e.g. waited 7 or 8 months)?
The average waiting time after 6 months was 512 days.
Question 1 (C). Please could you also in your reply give exact breakdown of number of cases which UKBA took more than 6 months to decide between the period 1st August. 2009 and 28th Feb 2010?
770 cases from the above sample took more than 6 months to decide.
Question 1 (D). What was the average time as well as maximum time taken to decide cases which fall in the remaining 5% that do not get a decision within 6 months of their ILR applications?
The average number of working days taken to consider all cases dispatched within the time frame above which took longer than 6 months was 512 days. The maximum time taken to consider was 2060 days.
Question 1 (E). How the UKBA is claiming 95% of decisions are taken within 6 months respectively to the data you provided?
The figure of 95% relates to all postal applications. This figure is not broken down by case or form type and so does not relate to 10 Year Long Residence cases specifically. Some types of case may take longer than 6 months and some may take less.
Question 2 (A). How many caseworkers (actual numbers) are exclusively dealing with '10 year continuous legal stay' ILR applications at the UKBA?
Within UKBA, no caseworker will deal exclusively with this case type. Caseworkers are multi skilled to deal with a range of case types.
Question 2 (B). Each case worker assigned how many cases in the same time?
Each caseworker deals with one case at a time. However, where further information is required on a case, the caseworker will contact the customer to request this and, while they are awaiting this information, will proceed to deal with the next case. Due to this, caseworkers can have a variable number of cases with them awaiting completion.
Question 3. Are there any internal targets set by the UKBA as to how many minimum numbers of applications of '10 year continuous legal stay' ILR should be dealt by caseworkers, on an average, at the UKBA every day?
Applications relating to `10 years continuous legal stay' do not attract targets in this way as caseworkers do not deal solely with this case type on a daily basis.
Question 4. What is the criterion when deciding the sort of cases of '10 years continuous legal stay' ILR that normally fall in a category that are to dealt within six months and cases which normally take more than 6 months to arrive at a decision?
There is no criterion set by UKBA on whether a case will take more or less than 6 months to decide. Where further information is required on a case, the time a customer takes to respond may be a factor as to why a decision may take longer than 6 months to decide.
Question 5. What is the basis of allocating '10 year continuous legal stay' ILR applications to various centres (e.g. Croydon, Liverpool, Sheffield etc) in UK?
This is based on caseworking resource. A given percentage of all postal applications are allocated to Croydon and Sheffield. These are mixed case types and (with few exceptions) the split is not based on case type. 10 year long residence is one such case type which would fall into this category.
Question 6. Once an applicant has sent his '10 year continuous legal stay' ILR application to the UKBA and wants to sent some further documents to support his/her application, how does he/she find out which centre is dealing with his/her application? Calling Home Office on the phone to enquire rarely achieves any results as people taking the calls at the call centres sometimes are not very helpful in providing the necessary information to applicants?
If further documents are required in order to process an application, the caseworker will contact the customer to request these and provide a name and address for return. In advance of this stage, customers should contact the Immigration Enquiry Bureau for further advice.
Question 7. Out of an average of 100 '10 year continuous legal stay' ILR applications received by the UKBA, how many of applications falling under this '10 year continuous legal stay' ILR category (in percentage terms) get a positive outcome?
The grant rate against all outcomes from the data set used to provide the other figures is 68%. It is not possible to provide a "average 100" but a percentage based on the sample should be sufficient.
Question 7 (A). What is the interval of review as to whether the target of 95% applications '10 year continuous legal stay' ILRs decided within 6 months is being actually met by the caseworkers dealing with such applications?
Please see the above response to 1(E). The target of 95% does not relate solely to 10 year long residence applications and therefore no review of this type takes place.
Question 7 (B). What steps have been taken in the last one year to speed up the process to clear the backlog as from 1st Jan. 2010 all '10 year continuous legal stay' ILR applications would only be accepted by post. This may significantly increase the number of applications received in this category this year (as opposed to last year when some of these applications were being decided also by the same day premium service).
There is no current backlog of 10 year long residence applications. All cases are held within a constantly moving queue of work.
Question 8. So what are the non-routine circumstances then under which 10 year Long Residence applications may be sometimes considered along with Asylum caseworker units?
This may happen in rare occurrences where an applicant submits both a 10 year long residence application and an asylum application at the same time or within a very short timescale. This is an extremely uncommon occurrence but may result in the 10 year long residence case being considered by an Asylum unit.
Question 9. Please could UKBA confirm whether when processing applications, applications under '10 years continuous lawful stay in UK' ILR category are clubbed along with 14 years continuous unlawful stay applications in UKBA (i.e. caseworkers of a particular unit in UKBA) who are assigned to deal with 10 years lawful stay applications are also assigned to deal with '14 years continuous illegal stay in UK' applications?
Please see the above response to 2A. Caseworkers are skilled to deal with a variety of case types and so will regularly deal with 10 year long residence alongside other case types, including 14 year long residence.
The figures provided are based on local Management Information only and are not subject to National Statistics Protocol. The figures are therefore provisional and subject to change.
Enquiry Two
- Number of decisions made within 6 months.
- Number of decisions made outside 6 months.
- The average consideration time for cases made outside 6 months.
- The maximum consideration time for cases made outside 6 months.
Applications 5,270
Decisions 5,090
Decisions (Within 6mths) 3,890
Decisions (Over 6mths) 1,200
Average Consideration Time in Working Days (For Over 6mths) 563
Maximum Consideration Time in Working Days 2,060
Notes:
Notes:
1. Applications based on cases raised between the 1 Feb 2009 and
the 28 Feb 2010.
2. Decision, Average and Maximum figures based on cases despatched
between the 1 Feb 2009 and the 28 Feb 2010.
3. All figures rounded to the nearest 5 (except the average).
4. Figures based on local Management Information only and are not
subject to National Statistics Protocol. The figures are therefore
provisional and subject to change.
Question 1. How the UKBA is claiming 95% of decisions are taken within 6 months respectively to the data you provided?
Please see above answer on 1E.
Question 2. How to work it out an average Consideration Time in Working Days (For Over 6mths) 563 (which equal to how many weeks have be wait) Maximum Consideration Time in Working Days 2,060 (which equal to how many weeks have be wait)?
563 working days roughly equates to 113 weeks (based on 5 day weeks) and 2060 equates to 412 weeks.
The figures provided are based on local Management Information only and are not subject to National Statistics Protocol. The figures are therefore provisional and subject to change.