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PROGRESS OF BRITISH NATIONALITY SELECTION SCHEME

LETTERS

BRITISH

THE IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT WILL SOON START SENDING OUT TO ALL APPLICANTS UNDER THE GENERAL OCCUPATIONAL CLASS OF THE

THE STATUS OF THEIR NATIONALITY SELECTION SCHEME TO INFORM THEM OF APPLICATIONS.

A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT SAID TODAY (FRIDAY) THAT SO FAR,

HAD BEEN OF REGISTRATION

SUCCESSFUL 3,606 CERTIFICATES

APPLICANTS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS.

APPLICANTS IN

THE DEPARTMENT

THE

AIMING

ISSUED TO

THE

RANKING

CLASS

TO ACCORDING

OF ALL THEIR

ΤΟ COMPLETE IS GENERAL OCCUPATIONAL PROVISIONAL SCORES BY DECEMBER.

APPLICANTS WHO MAY OR APPROVED

'WE WILL BY THEN BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY MOST BE WITHIN THE QUOTA OF THEIR SELECTED OCCUPATIONAL GROUP OCCUPATION," HE SAID.

THE NEXT

STAGE IN

THE PROCESS

WOULD BE то VERIFY THE INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE APPLICANTS IN THEIR APPLICATION FORMS.

INTERVIEWS

ΤΟ

WITH INDIVIDUAL

APPLICANTS.

AND

MAKE THE TO ESTABLISH THEIR DEPENDANTS, AND

THIS IS DONE THROUGH THE INTERVIEWS WILL SERVE TO CONFIRM THE PROVISIONAL SCORES

CHECK IF NECESSARY,

DOCUMENTS ADJUSTMENTS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRINCIPAL APPLICANTS AND TO CLARIFY ANY OTHER DOUBTFUL POINTS.

THE

VERIFICATION INTERVIEW WAS THE SPOKESMAN EXPLAINED THAT

APPLICATION PROCESS SINCE THE MOST TIME-CONSUMING PART OF THE WHOLE NEARLY 38,000 APPLICANTS WOULD NEED TO BE INTERVIEWED INDIVIDUALLY.

WILL BE CONDUCTED

"WE EXPECT THAT THE MAJORITY OF INTERVIEWS NEXT YEAR, AND THE REMAINDER IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1993," HE SAID.

1992,

THE

IMMIGRATION

WILL DEPARTMENT FROM NOW TO FEBRUARY

GENERAL OCCUPATIONAL CLASS SEND OUT LETTERS TO APPLICANTS UNDER THE

WITHIN THE QUOTA OF THEIR WHOSE PROVISIONAL SCORES MAY BRING THEM SELECTED OCCUPATIONAL GROUP OR APPROVED OCCUPATION.

OF THE INTERVIEW,"

"THE LETTER WILL GIVE THE APPLICANT A ROUGH INDICATION TIME IN WHICH HE WILL BE INVITED TO ATTEND A VERIFICATION THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

A SECOND SERIES OF LETTERS APPLICANTS WHOSE 'PROVISIONAL

TO INFORM THEM

IN ADDITION, THE SPOKESMAN SAID WOULD GO OUT DURING THE SAME PERIOD TO SCORES ARE VERY CLOSE TO THE QUOTA LINE APPLICATIONS WERE STILL UNDER CONSIDERATION.

THAT

THEIR

WHETHER

MOVE THEY OR PROVIDED IN

ABOVE

OTHER

THEIR

"THIS IS BECAUSE THESE APPLICANTS MIGHT EVENTUALLY

ON OR BELOW

DEPENDING THE APPLICANTS CAN

INFORMATION

++ HE SAID. APPLICATION FORMS AT THE INTERVIEW STAGE,

LINE, QUOTA

VERIFY CERTAIN

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