Home Office guidance on country travel document requirements released following Bail for Immigration Detainees freedom of information request
Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID) has today published the latest Home Office travel document timescales following a freedom of information request made by BID.
Image credit: UK GovernmentYou can access the Home Office's 'Country returns documentation guide (August 2014)' on BID here.
The guidance is used by Home Office staff, and it consists of a country list containing information on whether a European Union (EU) letter or Emergency Travel Document (ETD) is required for return, the minimum documentary requirements for an ETD, timescales for production of an ETD if original evidence is available, if only copy evidence is available, or no evidence is available at all.
BID makes an annual request under the Freedom of Information Act for the Home Office to disclose its guidance on timescales to obtain travel documents by country.
The previous 2013 Home Office guidance is also available on BID here.
BID notes in a news release that the format has changed slightly for the 2014 document, and a number of columns have been redacted by the Home Office for the first time.