The work of the Immigration Directorates (Q2 2015) Contents

Contents

1 Key indicators of the Immigration Directorate’s performance

2 UK Visas and Immigration

Visa applications

Visa processing times

Service standards

Sponsors and licensing

New asylum cases

Asylum applications pending initial decision

Applications and initial decisions by common nationality

Syrian refugees

Resettling Syrian refugees

Asylum and immigration caseload

Legacy asylum cases

Legacy immigration cases

Grants of settlement

Spouse visas and the £18,600 threshold

Appeals and tribunals performance

MPs’ correspondence

Staff numbers

Interviewing all applicants in posts abroad

3 Immigration Enforcement

The Migration Refusal Pool

Non-compliance notifications

Immigration detention

Rule 35 report

Children in immigration detention

Foreign national offenders and ex-foreign national offenders (FNOs)

Reporting illegal immigration

100,000 immigration cap

4 Immigration Backlogs

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament




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Prepared 29 October 2015