Independent Monitor - Overseas Visit Reports
The Independent Monitor is expected to spend three months each year visiting a range of UK Border Agency International Group offices throughout the world. The Independent Monitor chooses which places she wishes to visit, and when. She aims to see a wide cross section of visa work and so she visits all sizes of visa offices, and ones that have both high and low rates of refusing visas.
The Independent Monitor's visits focus on applications with limited appeal rights, examining the information that is available to applicants, the quality of decision making, and how we handle complaints and post decision correspondence.
She submits to UK Border Agency International Group an overview report on her visit, with recommendations. They can be found here, along with our comments on the reports.
Independent Monitor's recommendations and UKvisas' comments: Amman and Dubai visit - January 2008
Report on the handling of complaints and post decision correspondence: Islamabad, December 2007, with UKvisas' responses to the recommendations
Independent Monitor recommendations and UKvisas' comments: Islamabad visit - December 2007
Independent Monitor recommendations and UKvisas' comments: Bangkok visit - November 2007
Independent Monitor visit to New York and Ottawa - October 2007
Summary of Independent Monitor's recommendations and UKvisas' comments: New York and Ottawa visit - October 2007
Independent Monitor visit to Copenhagen - September 2007
Summary of Independent Monitor’s recommendations and UKvisas' comments: Copenhagen visit – September 2007
Independent Monitor Visit to Seoul, Tokyo and Ulaanbataar - July, August 2007
Summary of Independent Monitor’s recommendations and UKvisas' comments: Tokyo, Seoul & Ulaanbaatar visit – July 2007
Independent Monitor visit to Beijing and Guangzhou - May 2007
Independent Monitor visit to Athens - April 2007
Independent Monitor visit to Lagos - March 2007
Independent Monitor visit to Dar Es Salaam, Kampala and the East and Southern Africa Conference - February 2007
Independent Monitor visit to Chennai - December 2006
Independent Monitor visit to Colombo - December 2006
Independent Monitor visit to Quito, Bogota and Kingston - November 2006
Independent Monitor visit to Tashkent and Tibilisi - September 2006
Independent Monitor visit to Pretoria, Harare and Lilongwe - July 2006
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