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UK Nationality Scheme

Strategies and Staffing Requirements for Different Levels of Applications

Appendix III

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1 Different strategies will be deployed to cope with

different levels of applications.

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Any increase in the number of applications will have impact only on the initial period of the operation (i.e. the first six months) during which the applications will be screened, data entered into the computer and selection on the basis of a points system will take place.

3 After the initial process, only potentially successful

applicants will be interviewed (which is the most manpower-intensive stage of the process). Given the fixed ceiling of the scheme, the increase in the number of applications will not increase the number of applicants who need to be interviewed. Hence, no extra staff are required for the interview stage.

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The possibility of extending the period of processing time considerably is ruled out, because the first batch of passports must be issued within six months of the

inception of the scheme in order to stem the rise of brain drain. Hence, the need to deploy other strategies to cope with excessive applications.

The strategies to be deployed to handle different levels of applications and their resource implications are shown below. (All cost estimates should be used only as indicators. A detailed costing exercise will be conducted after input of costs by HMG is received.)

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