Annex A - Legacy casework - Glossary of
terminology
Review (a case) - consider
a case on the facts known to the Home Office and make and communicate
a decision as to whether to grant of leave or not against current
policy. OLCU is committed to reviewing all of the remaining
live cases.
Conclude (a case) - Legacy
cases are concluded by granting leave, removing individuals from
the country or by cleansing clear data errors and duplicates.
Close (a case) - take
no further action on a case where a series of checks with external
partners and internal databases have returned no recent evidence
that the individual is still in the UK. If someone with a
closed case comes to the attention of the Home Office we will
reactivate the case and consider what action is required according
to the individual circumstances of the case.
Active Review -Application
for further leave from a person previously granted limited leave
following refusal of an asylum application.
Controlled archives -
cases that the Case Resolution Directorate could not trace before
closing on 31 March 2011. The number of controlled archive cases
passed to Case Assurance and Audit Unit on 31 March 2011 totalled
124,000 consisting of;
· Asylum controlled archive - 98,000
asylum cases (where the asylum claim was made before 5 March 2007)
where CRD had tried to establish contact with the individual but
had been unsuccessful
· Migration controlled archive - 26,000
older immigration cases where CRD had tried to establish contact
with the individual but had been unsuccessful.
Case Resolution Directorate (CRD)
- established in April 2007 to deal with an estimated backlog
of 400,000 - 450,000 asylum case records. Closed summer 2011having
reviewed 500,500 legacy cases.
Case Assurance and Audit Unit (CAAU)
- established in April 2011 to manage the untraced cases in the
controlled archives and those legacy cases which CRD had not been
able to conclude due to outstanding barriers.
Older Live Cases Unit (OLCU)
- CAAU was renamed to Older Live Cases Unit in early 2013 to reflect
the fact that the controlled archives had now been closed and
the focus would now be on reviewing the 40,900 remaining live
legacy cases.
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