E7.16 Documenting decisions
Immigration Act 1987 S.36
- All visa and immigration officers must observe the following procedures to ensure that decisions on applications for temporary entry are properly documented:
- make all file records (particularly file notes and instructions) accurate, clear, complete and factual, and
- give all decisions on applications in writing to applicants (or their representatives) (see E7.35(b)), and
- state the full reasons for the decisions (without prejudicing any risk profiles), and
- if an applicant is outside policy on several grounds, the letter declining their application must state why the applicant fails on each count.
