Information Access Team
Shared Services Directorate
2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF
Switchboard 020 7035 4848
E-mail: [email address] Website: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
Mr Bradley Roberts
[FOI #21441 email]
By e-mail only
20 January 2010
Our reference: 13087
Your references:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/overseas_students_2#outgoing-45069
Home Office Request
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/oveseas_students#outgoing-39826
United Kingdom Border Agency Request
Dear Mr Roberts
Freedom of Information request: Internal Review
Thank you for your e-mail of 7 December 2009 where you asked for an
Internal Review where you alleged the Home Office failed to respond to your
request for;
“
The numbers of overseas students who have studied at Grimsby Institute
over the past five years and have not returned to their country of origin on
expiration of their student visas, and whom there is now no trace”.
I understand you submitted this request to the Home Office on 31 October
2009.
I have investigated this matter and after consulting with my colleagues at the
UK Border Agency (UKBA), which is an Agency of the Home Office, I
understand you submitted a very similar request to them on 20 October 2009,
where you wrote;
“
Request, under the Freedom of Information Act, the number of overseas
student formerly studying at Grimsby Institute of Further Education under
student visas who have not left the UK on the expiration of their visas and
for whom there is now no trace”
The nature of your requests were similar. Although there is a slight difference
in the wording of your requests, they are both essentially requesting
information on the number of overseas students who studied at Grimsby
Institute who did not return to their county of origin after the expiration of their
student visa and whom are unaccounted for.
Our records show that UKBA responded to your request on 23 October 2009
and I have reviewed the response you received from UKBA. The response
you received answers the two requests you sent to the Home Office on 31
October and to UKBA 20 October.
Although you submitted two requests, as they were of a similar nature they
were therefore treated as one. The response you received from UKBA
answers both requests and the Home Office is under no obligation to resend
you the same response to your duplicate request dated 31 October. I have
provided a copy of UKBA’s response with this letter.
For this reason your request for an internal review is refused. However, I
hope that this letter has provided you with a satisfactory explanation regarding
how your requests for information were handled.
Yours sincerely
L Lui
Information Access Team
