The work of the Immigration Directorates (Q3 2015) Contents

4Immigration backlogs

No. of cases

No. of cases

No. of cases

No of cases

No. of cases

Difference on a year earlier

% change

Q3 2014

Q4 2014

Q1 2015

Q2 2015

Q3 2015

Live asylum cohort

21,363

20,473

20,181

20,017

19,833

-1,530

-7%

Live immigration cases

4,930

4,662

4,587

4,542

4,499

-431

-9%

FNOs living in the community

4,702

4,903

5,053

5,021

5,267

+565

12%

Migration refusal pool

173,514

173,371

160,588

157,142

167,975

-5,539

-3%

No. of cases still to be loaded on CID

6,456

5,050

10,969

6,855

5,063

-1,393

-22%

Temporary and permanent migration pool

140,655

120,460

109,718

124,582

156,286

15,631

11%

Total

351,620

328,919

311,096

318,159

358,923

7,303

2%

97.Our predecessor Committee regularly expressed its concern about the immigration backlogs. The current backlog of cases reached 358,923 in Q3 2015, an increase of 7,000 from a year earlier. It is deeply concerning that there has been so little improvement and we have to return and restate the issue again.




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