10 years lawful stay SET (O) for ILR applicant

Dear UK Border Agency,

Dear Employment, Freedom of Information,

My queries based on previous request.

1.
Accordingly on the UKBA website settlement for ILR under 10 years
long stay SET (O) application the waiting time is as follows:

• UKBA decides 95% of postal applications within six months;

A). Could you give a exact breakdown (actual numbers) of
application received between 1st August 2009 and 28th February 2010
under ‘10 years continuous legal stay in UK’ indefinite leave to
remain category and how many of these applications (actual numbers
were decided within 6 months?

B). An average waiting time after 6 months (e.g. waited 7 or 8
months)

C). Please could you also in your reply give exact breakdown of
number of cases which UKBA took more than 6 months to decide
between the period 1st August. 2009 and 28th Feb 2010?

D). What was the average time as well as maximum time taken to
decide cases which fall in the remaining 5% that do not get a
decision within 6 months of their ILR applications.

E). How the UKBA is claiming 95% of decisions are taken within 6
months respectively to the data you provided?

2.
A). How many caseworkers (actual numbers) are exclusively dealing
with '10 year continuous legal stay' ILR applications at the UKBA?

B).Each case worker assigned how many cases in the same time.

3.
Are there any internal targets set by the UKBA as to how many
minimum numbers of applications of '10 year continuous legal stay'
ILR should be dealt by caseworkers, on an average, at the UKBA
every day?

4.
What is the criterion when deciding the sort of cases of '10 years
continuous legal stay' ILR that normally fall in a category that
are to dealt within six months and cases which normally take more
than 6 months to arrive at a decision?

5.
What is the basis of allocating '10 year continuous legal stay' ILR
applications to various centres (e.g. Croydon, Liverpool, Sheffield
etc) in UK?

6.
Once an applicant has sent his '10 year continuous legal stay' ILR
application to the UKBA and wants to sent some further documents to
support his/her application, how does he/she find out which center
is dealing with his/her application? Calling Home Office on the
phone to enquire rarely achieves any results as people taking the
calls at the call centers sometimes are not very helpful in
providing the necessary information to applicants.

7.
Out of an average of 100 '10 year continuous legal stay' ILR
applications received by the UKBA, how many of applications falling
under this '10 year continuous legal stay' ILR category (in
percentage terms) get a positive outcome?

A). What is the interval of review as to whether the target of 95%
applications '10 year continuous legal stay' ILRs decided within 6
months is being actually met by the caseworkers dealing with such
applications?

B). What steps have been taken in the last one year to speed up the
process to clear the backlog as from 1st Jan. 2010 all '10 year
continuous legal stay' ILR applications would only be accepted by
post. This may significantly increase the number of applications
received in this category this year (as opposed to last year when
some of these applications were being decided also by the same day
premium service).

8.
So what are the non-routine circumstances then under which 10 year
Long Residence applications may be sometimes considered along with
Asylum caseworker units

9.
Please could UKBA confirm whether when processing applications,
applications under '10 years continuous lawful stay in UK' ILR
category are clubbed along with 14 years continuous unlawful stay
applications in UKBA (i.e. caseworkers of a particular unit in UKBA
who are assigned to deal with 10 years lawful stay applications are
also assigned to deal with '14 years continuous illegal stay in UK'
applications?

i am looking forward to hearing from you. Many thanks

Yours Faithfully,

boonbin