Border Agency registrations 'chaotic'
In a report released today, Tuesday 8 December 2009, the parliamentary Home Affairs Committee expresses its regrets that case registrations at the UK Border Agency ever became “so chaotic” and hopes that the new model for case handling will enable UKBA to resolve historic problems - and cases – and show that it is working as it should
The Committee acknowledges the increased resources that have been made available to clear the substantial backlog of asylum applications but says UKBA's self-imposed deadline of 2011 is simply too long - the Committee says with these resources all cases going back three years or should be finally decided by September 2010 at the latest.
The Committee is particularly concerned about the huge proportion and number of total applications - over 54% - that have been concluded either by error or for some other reason which the UKBA can't define (rather than by a grant or refusal of leave). The Committee says it understands "the difficulty in keeping track of people who may have made multiple applications, sometimes in different names, particularly in the years before the biometric information of applicants was recorded and at times when the numbers of people seeking asylum were at record highs" but still highly regrets that registrations could have become so chaotic.
