A re-inspection of the Administrative Review process
This report follows up the original inspection published 26 May 2016.
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The Immigration Act 2014 (鈥榯he 2014 Act鈥�) replaced the right of appeal to the Immigration and Asylum Tribunal for certain types of immigration decision with an internal Home Office administrative review (AR) process. The Home Office explained that this was in order to provide 鈥渁 proportionate and less costly mechanism for resolving case working errors鈥�.
During the passage of the 2014 Immigration Bill, some MPs and peers argued that an internal process would not be an effective replacement for an appeal to a judge. To meet these concerns, section 16 of the 2014 Act required the Home Secretary to commission a report from the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration.
This re-inspection examined the progress that the Home Office has made against the recommendations in the 2016 report.