450,000 Asylum Seekers may get a second chance

Christophe · Post by **Christophe** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:12 pm

Lazarus wrote:Are you then saying that some people who claimed political asylum their case never reached the hands of a case worker.

Well, they reached a case worker during this "clear-out" of cases (for want of a better term). Some may have been assigned a case worker before that, in theory (though certainly some had not), but the point was that none of the cases had had any work done on them.

Christophe · Post by **Christophe** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:13 pm

jimquk wrote:In about 1995 there was a backlog clearance exercise for people that had been waiting more than ten years; I'm not sure whether that included people that had had negative decisions, or just people that had never had any decision at all ...

They were cases about which no decision had been made; they were not cases of people's whose claim had failed.

Janit · Post by **Janit** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:20 pm

I know someone who got sent a questionnaire.

He kept a copy of the completed form; I will ask him to let me borrow it; I will block out his details and try to send it to the admin, by Royal Mail as I am not clued up on sending things through emails. Give me a few days to get to him and see if he will allow me. If and when I get it I will come back to you all.

Fingers crossed.

Post by **Administrator** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:36 am

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Janit --

Thanks for the offer.

However, I'm located in Riga, Latvia.

Maybe you or a friend can take a digital photograph (or a couple .. however many are necessary) and email it/them ..?

We can also accept a fax here.

+371 (Latvia country code) 781 4123

If you can get a copy, please PM me and we'll figure out a way to do this. I very seriously would like to post the questions to our website so everyone can see them.

Hopefully people could then discuss the questions and provide the best probable answers for positive results.

If the questionnaire is not too long, like maybe one page, if you could even just type the questions and post them here ...?

Any feedback from your friend would be VERY appreciated.

Maybe your friend could even join the board and post some comments ..?

THANK YOU !

the Admin

[ P.S. -- if absolutely necessary, we can make arrangements to accept a copy in London at our Bolton Court / Fleet street office ... it would just help if we can get it directly to our tech office in Riga. Be a nice coup over our consultants in London!

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pathaniprincess · Post by **pathaniprincess** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 3:29 pm

sakura · Post by **sakura** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 3:39 pm

pathaniprincess wrote:
Administrator wrote:.

>bump<

I am very VERY interested in obtaining a copy of the questionnaire being sent out. If anyone knows of a copy somewhere and could scan it ...? Or of a website or forum that claims to have a copy ..?

I want to make it a resource available to all on our website.

Thank you,

the Admin

WOWWW! INTERESTING TOPIC!
...I HAVE THE QUESTIONNAIRE!!!...
THE HOME OFFICE SENT ME AND MY PARTNER 2 DAYS AGO!
WE FILLED IT IN TODAY AND SENT IT ALONG WITH EVIDENCE, WEDDING VIDEO, WEDDING PHOTOS ETC....BUT YOU CAN CHEK OUT MY POST WHICH TELLS YOU ABOUT ME AND I HAVE ALSO PUT ALL THE QUESTIONNAIRE QUESTIONS ON THERE, IN ORDER...AS THE HOME OFFICE WEBSITE ONLY GIVES HALF OF THE QUESTIONS ON THEIR!!!
BUT HEY, COME SEE MY FIRST POST AND EVERYTHINGS ON THERE! MY POST: http://www.immigrationboards.com/viewto ... 721#108721

Calm down dear!

Actually, you did NOT get this questionnaire. You received a questionnaire based on your CoA application. The BIA are now providing you the possibility to apply for a CoA if you can't do so from home. I think there was a case before, and the person was a failed asylum seeker, but couldn't return, so the BIA had to issue him the CoA.

If the letter was addressed to you both, it was definately the CoA application, not this questionnaire. Plus, from the questions you wrote down in your thread, it seems related more to the CoA than his asylum application.

Janit · Post by **Janit** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 7:49 am

Got the Legacy Questionnaire form. Admin, what is your email address or you can email me and I will reply with it as an attachment for you to look at.

Hope it gets through.

jimquk · Post by **jimquk** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 11:44 am

Interesting news from ILPA via NCADC:

http://www.ncadc.org.uk/Newszine86/ilpa.htm

about the prioritisation of legacy cases. In typical fashion, having said that no representations would be considered before a questionnaire has been issued, the BIA now say that actually they may never send some priority cases questionnaires....

I think it just boils down to, if there are any reasons not already made known to the BIA, then make them known, especially if there's a realistic prospect of removal. Of course, being considered as a legacy case is no guarantee of being granted stay in any case.

avjones · Post by **avjones** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 11:50 am

From what I gather, the granting of ILR is ONLY to families with children ATM.

lola88 · Post by **lola88** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:50 pm

What is ATM?

PaulM · Post by **PaulM** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:29 pm

at the moment?

avjones · Post by **avjones** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:10 am

yes, ATM = at the moment

Paulsmith · Post by **Paulsmith** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 5:44 pm

Just been informed that the Home Office has stopped sending out questionnaires to applicants. Anybody else who has been informed about this?

avjones · Post by **avjones** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:08 pm

A client of mine got one last week.

Paulsmith · Post by **Paulsmith** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:15 pm

As far as I know they stopped sending out questionnaires on Monday. They might start granting ILR without sending a questionnaire or stop the whole CRP.

kg1983 · Post by **kg1983** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:20 pm

sorry if you think I am trying to be clever but whats your source? We hear different rumours all the time.

Paulsmith · Post by **Paulsmith** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:37 pm

Solicitors etc. but as mentioned above I'm trying to find out more myself.

kg1983 · Post by **kg1983** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:44 pm

Yes i wont be surprised if this happened because in order to clear the entire legacy backlog they need to grant/remove/resolve 10,000 cases a month and I dont think they can achieve that. I personally know so many people who are not in touch with the home office, have changed their addresses etc so there is no way of contacting them.

Paulsmith · Post by **Paulsmith** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 9:58 pm

Well, as I know there will be 1000 Home Office staff working on the CRP and even if 500 of them clear 1 case a day then there is a possibility that they can achieve this target.

1 Month = 20 Working days, 20x500=10000

ref: http://www.ilpa.org.uk/infoservice/Info ... 0Cases.pdf

kg1983 · Post by **kg1983** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 11:11 pm

yes but is it that straightforward though? If they grant ELR or ILR its all good but if they attempt to remove people then they disappear or sometimes its impossible to track them down. I also read a few stories in the press where people were asked to wait 10 months before they can actually be removed. Fastest way to return to country of origin for overstayers is to either buy your own flight home or contact IOM.

Also if it is working all well for them then they wouldnt abandon CRP.

kg1983 · Post by **kg1983** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 11:20 pm

avjones wrote:A client of mine got one last week.

I wanted to ask you whether CRP includes non-asylum cases or any of your non-asylum clients have been issued with a legacy letter or questionnaire.

breeze123 · Post by **breeze123** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 11:30 pm

Does anybody know if the home office started reviewing single adults cases?
Because as far as I know they are working on families cases and it will take them some time to finish these cases up to March 2008.
so please if you know a single adult received a questionaire , let me by emailing or pm
I would be grateful if you let me know.

Paulsmith · Post by **Paulsmith** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 12:02 am

How do you know they will clear all family cases until March 2008?

It says people who receive Support through NASS are a priority. It doesn't say anything about families or singles.

What is the priority order?

As the Home Secretary announced on 25 July in the IND Review, we will prioritise:
i. Cases in which the individuals concerned may pose a risk to the
public. These will be our top priority since they concern public
protection.
ii. Cases relating to individuals who are in receipt of public support
(formerly through the National Asylum Support Service).
iii. Cases in which it is likely that a decision will be made to grant leave
to enter or remain in the UK.
iv. Cases where the individuals can more easily be removed.

(http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/applyi ... gammefaqs/)

There was a Case where it says that they don't know what the priority order will be after the current priority cases have been cleared.

The enforcement directorate and Case resolution directorate are currently two different departments. For example, an individual can be picked up for removal without having their case considered by the CRD. I hope this will change in 2008 as it says in the ILPA document. (http://www.ilpa.org.uk information sheet "legacy 3 ")

So it might be possible that the Removals directorate will process the removal instead of the CRD if a decision is made to remove someone. As I know both departments will join next year, but this depends if a decision to remove someone has been made in the NAM and they still use the old removals directorate to remove people then it might not. It says that a NAM caseworker will process from the beginning till the end. So if s/he does everything what will the people in the removals directorate do?

I think about few months ago I have spoken to someone who told me that they will have groups who do all the work. It might be possible that a small group(maybe 100 people) will be responsible for removal because most of the people will be allowed to stay anyway.

1000 workers! 500 to make decisions and the other 500 to do the rest. What you think now? possible or not?

breeze123 · Post by **breeze123** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 12:25 am

It is in welsh refugee council's website

Legacy questionnaire timeframe extended
The BIAâ€™s Case Resolution Directorate (CRD) has extended the timeframe for resolving the
asylum claims of families receiving asylum support who have been in the UK for several
years. BIA now intends to resolve the claims by 31st March 2008 rather than mid-December
2007.
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/NR/rdo ... mber07.pdf

Post by **Administrator** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 11:12 am

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breeze123 wrote: http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/NR/rdo ... mber07.pdf

I edited the link to make it active.

However, each time I've tried to download it, the 13 KB file will not open. Acrobat Reader claims the file is corrupted or does not match the file extension.

If anyone has ideas how to download & read this file, I'd be interested.

Thanks,

the Admin

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