Saturday, 13 July 2013

UK immigration backlog ‘tops 500,000’ say MPs

The backlog of unresolved immigration cases has grown to more than 500,000, a group of influential MPs has said.

The Home Affairs Committee said that at present rates it could take 37 years to clear.

In its latest report into the system, the cross-party committee questioned whether splitting up the UK Border Agency would change anything.

Which judging by these figures it clearly hasn’t, how can there be a backlog of this size, surely when the total figure topped 50,000 the powers that be would have got together and said maybe we should make some inroads into this and get that number down.


What’s even worse about this is the Home Office disagrees with the figure and says the backlog is only around 460,000, as if saying that would make everybody suddenly go oh it’s only 460,000 that’s not so bad I’m sure they’ll clear that in a jiffy, 35 years to you and me. 

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