Hi All
TRA Tragedy Sender: vb2we failed first time also, although you think you have sent enough info, we later realised after our second attempt that we didnt provide any where near enough!! my advice...
I need to clarify a few things. I recently posted a table of processing times (from application to Case Officer-buttessment). This was obtained by Emailing the Managers of the regions. I saw no problem with sharing this with this site as I thought it useful and also did not think it as privileged information.
DIMIA have received a complaint, presumably from a Registered Migration Agent, that my postings, and publication of an "official Table" implied that I may be receiving privileged information from ASPC. So, to set the record straight, any Migration Agent, or client for that matter, could have got the information that I posted, by contacting the ASPC direct. The ASPC would have preferred me not to release the table without a narrative on how it should be interpretted - which is fair enough, as they don't want clients following-up on cases when it looks like, from the table, that their Health and Character letter is one day overdue.
The ASPC was keen to point out that they do not wish to sensor information on processing times and are very keen to provide clients and agents with better general information with regard processing times etc for General Send Migration Applications. To this end, they have been working on developing a tool to put on the Immigration website that provides updated information as to where applications are up to. This would be available online to all applicants and all agents.
My publishing of the table has highlighted the discrepancies of processing times accross the regions and may have exagerated this a bit. The ASPC is trying to get the allocations for each of the regions at roughly the same date so that we can provide an overall date range for the caseload as whole (distinguishing between priority and non priority) rather than on a region by region basis.
ASPC expect that this information will be available on the website in approximately two months. When there is an overall date range for Priority and Non-Priority cases, it will be expected that no clients or Agents should follow-up on cases until they were at least 2 weeks outside the time-scales.
So there you have it, I'm a bit peeved that somebody felt the need to complain to the ASPC. I'm sure that whoever it was, will also now have been briefed on the above initiatives, in much more detail and will maybe share this info with the site.
Tony
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