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Home Office Criticised Over Delays in Immigration Cases

Categories: Articles:Asylum & Refugees | Published: 11/11/2015 | Views: 1608
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman investigated 158 complaints against the Home Office and agencies last year, and upheld 69% of them.  That is more than double the average for the public sector. In one case, a teenage refugee had to wait nearly 10 years before he was allowed to stay.

The Home Office said it would consider the report's findings. According to the report, the main problem the watchdog identified with the Home Office concerned immigration casework, where procedural errors, delays and poor decisions meant people had to endure "prolonged uncertainty". Read more: BBC News, 10/11/2015


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