Immigration: Appeals

(asked on 23rd February 2018) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time taken was for processing immigration appeals during 2015-2016.


Answered by
Lucy Frazer Portrait
Lucy Frazer
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
This question was answered on 28th February 2018

The average time taken to clear an immigration appeal in the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) in 2016-2017 was 51 weeks. The average time taken to clear a case in 2015-2016 was 35 weeks.

The average clearance time, which is measured from receipt of an appeal to its conclusion, went up between 2015-16 and 2016-17 because of the Tribunal significantly reducing its outstanding caseload and clearing older cases during that period. Outstanding caseload has now reduced from 64,800 in June 2016 to 35,100 at the end of December 2017.

Immigration includes Managed Migration, Entry Clearance Officer, Human Rights, EEA Free Movement Family Visit Visa, Deportation and Deprivation of Citizenship Appeals.

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