Decisions to provide a COA for EEA2 applications

The request was successful.

Dear Home Office,

I have not been able to find the information which I require on any government website nor via emailing the Home Office. I hope that this request under the FOIA will provide the information that I need. I wish to get access to any information held by the Home Office on the following issue, for example, training materials, meeting minutes, internal emails or caseworker guidelines etc. I am not asking for all of these: I am asking for those that pertain to my request below.

Request: Please provide the criteria that are used to decide whether or not someone who is applying for a residence card (EEA2) receives a Certificate of Application (COA) which indicates that they have the legal right to work in the UK?

Please note: if this request is rejected on the basis of being more than 600GBP or that this information does not exist, I will have to contact the Information Commissioner as this information should be available to the public. There is no reason for it to be classified and it should exist in the current caseworker guidelines.

Yours faithfully,

John Kelly

FOI Requests, Home Office

Dear John Kelly

Thank you for your recent e mail- as below.
We aim to send a response by 15/07/2014

Regards

Information Management Services (IMS)
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Sukwant Singh left an annotation ()

Have you seen this request? https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...

There is also this request, https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/p...

My Friend. It might be worthwhile for yourself to view this mans requests. Some of the request's don't appear to be too useful but a lot do have useful information in them.

Please also note that the ECJ has already deemed that a person with a right to work under EC law does not require a member state to authorise the work before the work can proceed.

FOI Responses, Home Office

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Dear Mr Kelly

Thank you for your email of 17^th June to the Home Office Freedom of
Information team requesting information about certificates of application
issued under the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006
(‘the EEA Regulations’).  Your request is being handled as a request for
information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. 

Please find attached our response

Yours Sincerely

Information Access Team

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Meliana Pearsall left an annotation ()

John. Note that the request made last year (linked by mr singh) provided a lot more info.

This is new guidance. Did they issue a new MQT or PIN etc. Martin Riddle accepted that these fell into the request last year during internal review.

Good luck though. It took till the point that the ico were going to hold the HO in contempt of court...