breakdown of asylum applications by nationality in 'Other Americas' category

Dear Sir or Madam,

I refer to Table 2a of the supplementary tables which accompany the
2008 Control of Immigration Statistics. This table gives figures
for "Applications (1) received for asylum in the United Kingdom,
excluding dependants, by country of nationality 1999 to 2008".

Would it be possible to have a breakdown of those nationalities,
and corresponding figures, included within the category 'Other
Americas'?

Yours faithfully,

Jacob Lagnado

Research and Information Officer

Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees

D605, Social Sciences Building

City University, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB

0207 040 4594

http://www.icar.org.uk

Dear Dhani Amardeep (RDS),

As a matter of urgency I need to inform you that today we were
contacted by an asylum seeker whose name, along with the names of
many others and what is presumably confidential information,
appeared as part of the document you attached in response to my FOI
request (excel file entitled "asylum applications for other
Americas").

This information appears to be somehow encrypted in the file as we
could not see it, but this asylum seeker came across it upon doing
a google search of her name. We have managed to remove the file
from our website, however the personal information still comes
up on a google search using her name, in html form.

I would be grateful if you could treat this matter as urgent to try
and remove this information completely from the public domain and
from files which your section sends out.

Many thanks for your assistance.

Yours sincerely,

Jacob Lagnado
Research and Information Officer
Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees (ICAR)
D605, Social Sciences Building
City University
Whiskin Street
London EC1V 0HB
www.icar.org.uk
tel: +44 (0)20 7040 4596