Use of electronic payslips in applications

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Dear Home Office,

I would like to request information which I have not been able to find on your website not from any other source online.

There are two parts to this request:

1) Please provide the exact location of guidance which states that payslips/banks statements/utility bills etc must/should be either original documents (printed and posted by the service provider/employer) or that electronic versions of these documents must be stamped/signed for applications such as EEA(QP), EEA(PR), AN, ILR etc. I would like to find the exact document that states this if it exists.

2) Please advise the number of applications for EEA(PR) which were rejected in the year 2016 due to the provision of electronic documents from employers/banks/service providers if this information exists.

Should the information not exist I would like to know why, then, the Home Office can reject applications on the basis of the above.

Yours faithfully,
John Kelly

FOI Requests, Home Office

Dear Mr. Kelly,

 

Thank you for contacting the Home Office with your request.

 

This has been assigned to a caseworker (case ref 42776). We will aim to
send you a full response by 06/03/2017 which is twenty working days from
the date we received your request.

 

If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact us.

 

 

Thank you,

 

N McKenzie

FOI Requests

Home Office

 

 

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FOI Responses, Home Office

1 Attachment

Dear Mr Kelly

 

Please find attached letter in response to your FOI request of 5 February.

 

Regards

CCT FOI Team

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Eugene D left an annotation ()

The response links to guidance notes on the page "Apply for a document certifying permanent residence or permanent residence card: form EEA (PR)".
However, none of the documents listed there suggest that payslips must be signed or stamped or verified in any way.

I believe that the Home Office completely dodged this question.