Change of conditions applications and grants by category of leave
Dear Home Office,
Could you please provide me with the number of change of conditions (variation of leave) applications that were submitted in each of 2022, 2023 and 2024 (Q1 and Q2) to vary the conditions of the following categories of leave - (i) Health and Care Worker visa; (ii) Student visa; (iii) Graduate visa; (iv) Skilled Worker visa.
Could you also please provide me with the number of change of conditions (variation of leave) applications that were granted in each of 2022, 2023 and 2024 (Q1 and Q2) to vary the conditions of the following categories of leave - (i) Health and Care Worker visa; (ii) Student visa; (iii) Graduate visa; (iv) Skilled Worker visa.
In the event that this request breaches the cost limit, please provide the above data only for Health and Care Worker visas, also broken down into 2022, 2023 and 2024 (Q1 and Q2). If that also breaches the cost limit, please provide the requested data for 2024 only.
In the event that you determine some of the information I have requested to be exempt from disclosure, please redact exempt information with black boxes, instead of snipping or excerpting, and please state which category of exemption you believe applies to the information.
Yours faithfully,
Andrei Savitski
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Dear Andrei Savitski,
FOI2024/06981
Please find attached a letter in response to your FOI request of 28 August
2024.
Yours sincerely
CCT FOI
Customer Operations Support Services
Dear Home Office,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Home Office's handling of my FOI request 'Change of conditions applications and grants by category of leave'.
On 28 August 2024, I had requested "the number of change of conditions (variation of leave) applications that were submitted in each of 2022, 2023 and 2024 (Q1 and Q2) to vary the conditions of the following categories of leave - (i) Health and Care Worker visa; (ii) Student visa; (iii) Graduate visa; (iv) Skilled Worker visa." I also requested the same breakdown for change of condition applications granted.
The request had acknowledged the potential costs involved - "In the event that this request breaches the cost limit, please provide the above data only for Health and Care Worker visas, also broken down into 2022, 2023 and 2024 (Q1 and Q2). If that also breaches the cost limit, please provide the requested data for 2024 only."
The reason for the refusal of my request, dated 19 September 2024, was stated as the following - "the cost of locating and collating any relevant information and extracting the information to meet your request would exceed the appropriate limit of £600 specified in the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004, [...] because the information you have requested is not held in a reportable format and in order to respond to your request, we would need to complete a manual trawl
of records to identify this information."
However, tables CoC_02 through CoC_04 of publicly available dataset "Sponsorship transparency data: Q2 2024" already contain analogous data in reportable format, albeit not by category of leave, but by age group, nationality and gender of the applicants. It would be reasonable to assume that given these tables, along with tables CoC_01 and CoC_05 through CoC_07, have already been produced in reportable format, it would be possible to extract data on the category of leave in question without needing to complete a manual trawl of records (and within the relevant cost limit).
Therefore, I request that you please review the decision to refuse the information request submitted on 28 August 2024.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...
Yours faithfully,
Andrei Savitski
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Kind Regards,
Home Office
Dear Andrei Savitski,
Please find attached our internal review response to your request for
information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Kind regards
Information Rights Team
Knowledge and Information Management Unit
Securities, Estates & Information Directorate
Home Office | 2 Marsham Street | London SW1P 4DF
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