did you guys know Capita is now CONSIDERING CASES!?

[sagareva]

This is heavy stuff folks. Here is a page from my client's SAR file (blackouts are HO's, and I have also erased case and file ID numbers). Note HOME OFFICE ACTUALLY HAS CAPITA - a private organisation- DECIDING CASE RECONSIDERATIONS FILED ON HUMAN RIGHTS GROUNDS!!!! This case was a private life case from 2010.

and they feel fine doing it WITHOUT THE ACTUAL FILES ON APPLICATIONS THEY ARE RECONSIDERING! That is because the original files could not be sent from HO for 3.5 years.

I am sure having Capita DECIDE CASES is illegal?! In this particular case the client has no standing to sue, because he had actually abandoned 2010 application long ago, had since married and been pursuing an EEA route. He'd be shocked to find out Capita was working hard to recondsider his 2010 private life case all these years. (i suspect the reason HO never sent the file to Capita was precisely that the person was already involved in a totally new line of cases that were all ongoing)

But I am more shocked at this than possible anything else I have seen HO do, ever.
HOw can a private contractor be deciding cases, and especially those involving human rights claims?!
This also shows you how seriously (not) HO takes reconsideration of private life cases.

Sorry for shouting but made me want to precisely scream when I saw it.

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[secret.simon]

I did not know, but I can not say I am surprised. The last government privatised the decisions on disability benefits to Atos, so why not immigration cases to Capita? I disagree with the way it has been done, but given the government we have got for the next five years, we can expect more of the same.

[UKBA HUNTER]

http://www.capita.co.uk/news-and-opinio ... -ukba.aspx