Visa checks 'inadequate' - Tories
Updated on 04 July 2009
Officials are spending an average of just 11 minutes checking visa applications from Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Tories have claimed.
The introduction of a new system for handling visas means only 11 entry clearance officers have processed more than 66,000 requests over seven months amounting to 43 applications each every day - or one every 11 minutes, the party said.
Shadow home secretary Chris Grayling said the revelations showed the system was "wholly inadequate" but the Home Office said the calculations were "totally wrong".
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