iwantmyresidenceasap wrote:Not being funny but for what I have read here from people who asked questions on FOI/FOA thing they disclosed that they receive around 8,000 applications every month. Okay, fine, so that's £8,000,000 (eight million pounds) received by the home office to process them every month.
Now is anyone under the impression that staff processing these applications receive a lot more than the minimum wage? I doubt it. If it takes that long to even reach the top of the pile I guess there are not many of them doing this job.
It goes to show that they take the piss on us who pay a lot and on staff who don't get paid a lot.
Lovely.
Inspector John Vine states in his famous 11 Dec report as follows.
"In the calendar year 2013, Nationality Casework had an income target of £127m and achieved
an actual income of £152m. Due to the value of British citizenship to the successful applicant, the application fee (£906) was significantly higher than the associated administrative costs to the
Home Office (£144)."
So HO is making
£762 profit on each application which has increased to
£862 now. And still providing
pathetic and below the standard services,
No way to find out the actual status of the application.
Not to everyone and Not even sending proper acknowlegdment letters.
Not dealing applications in timely manner.
Not dealing applications on first come first serve basis ( infact there is no criterea, its just a random selection).
Not even doing proper data entry of the applicant's details, entrying wrong addresses etc.
Not attending phone calls.
Not sending proper reply to the emails.
Not dealing with complaints in a proper manner.
Not sending actual updates even after 6 month, just sending copy paste reply to everyone.
Not justifying that why one application of the same nature is taking 2 weeks and other is wiating for a year.
Not sending any correspondence by even 1st class post.(coz of that so many approvals and other correspondence gets lost)
HO is not doing it for charity ther r making hell of a profit out of these nationality applications then why dont they start online status check for applications, why dont they give proper and actual updates of the particular application, why dont they reply to the email after reading it properly and response accordingly, why why why whyyyyyyy......
Even If they start doing physical checks by going into the relevant departements i.e DVLA, Police, Coucils, HMRC etc even then it wont take 6 months then how come all electronic enquiries which r available on their finger tips taking ages. how how howwww........
doesnt make any sense or logic.
Can anyone see any logic or sense in this procedure or have any other point of veiw please post it here.
