The Border Force: securing the border
The Border Force has successfully implemented full passenger checks and cut queuing times but at the cost of maintaining other aspects of border security.
Sector: Borders and immigration
The UK Border Agency and Border Force: Progress in cutting costs and improving performance
Both organisations have achieved cost reduction and performance improvement, but poor planning and delayed delivery of projects hampered progress.
Published:
17 Jul 2012
17 Jul 2012
The UK Border Agency and Border Force: Progress in cutting costs and improving performance
Both organisations have achieved cost reduction and performance improvement, but poor planning and delayed delivery of projects hampered progress.
Immigration: The Points Based System – Student Route
This system was implemented by the UK Border Agency with predictable flaws. The Agency has taken little action to prevent and detect students overstaying or working in breach of their visa conditions.
Published:
27 Mar 2012
27 Mar 2012
Immigration: The Points Based System – Student Route
This system was implemented by the UK Border Agency with predictable flaws. The Agency has taken little action to prevent and detect students overstaying or working in breach of their visa conditions.
Immigration: the Points Based System – Work Routes
The Points Based System doesn’t deliver its full value for money potential, while poor data and monitoring hampers the removal of failed applicants.
Published:
15 Mar 2011
15 Mar 2011
Immigration: the Points Based System – Work Routes
The Points Based System doesn’t deliver its full value for money potential, while poor data and monitoring hampers the removal of failed applicants.
Management of Asylum Applications by the UK Border Agency
“The aim of the New Asylum Model is to strengthen the management of asylum applications, and it has delivered some improvements. But the system is not yet working as it should for every case. The UK Border Agency has to be sharper in gathering all relevant information as early as possible, translating it into good decisions and then speedily enforcing those decisions. There is a risk that a new backlog of unresolved cases will be created, adding to the existing backlog of ‘legacy cases’.”
Published:
23 Jan 2009
23 Jan 2009
Management of Asylum Applications by the UK Border Agency
The New Asylum Model, introduced by the Home Office in 2006 to achieve faster conclusions to asylum applications, has strengthened aspects of the asylum process, according to a report today by the National Audit Office. The case ownership approach, in which a single individual manages an application from start to finish, has created a strong … Read more
Home Office: The cancellation of Bicester Accommodation Centre
The Home Office spent some £28 million on plans to create a purpose-built asylum centre in Bicester, Oxfordshire, following its announcement in 2001 of a major overhaul of the asylum system to speed up the processing of applications from asylum-seekers. In 2005, in the light of improvements to the handling of asylum applications, reduced numbers … Read more