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<p>The following table shows the number of Foreign National Offenders (FNOs) who have
been convicted of a criminal offence and sentenced to a period of imprisonment and
subsequently referred to Immigration Enforcement for consideration of removal action.</p><p>Whilst
we aim to deport foreign national offenders at the earliest opportunity not all of
those referred to the Home Office will meet the deportation threshold, some may later
be confirmed as British or exempt from Immigration Control and some will be successful
at appeal. Removal may also be delayed as some offenders will repeatedly refuse to
comply with the deportation and documentation process, deliberately seek to flout
the system to disrupt our efforts to deport them or attempt to lodge multiple appeals.
Factors such as these can lead to deportation being delayed.</p><p>In May 2013, a
new system was introduced for recording and monitoring all FNO referrals, even where
an offender did not meet the deportation threshold. Prior to this, referrals of those
who did not meet deportation criteria were not routed through a central system so
this data was not centrally recorded. The introduction of this system therefore shows
an increase in the referral numbers from 2012/13 onwards.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial
year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of referrals to Immigration Enforcement</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number
of removals</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>6,452</p></td><td><p>5,367</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>7,326</p></td><td><p>4,539</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>6,874</p></td><td><p>4,720</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>10,786</p></td><td><p>5,118</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>10,461</p></td><td><p>5,277</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16
(to Sept 2015)</p></td><td><p>5,262</p></td><td><p>2,855</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br
/><p>The National Offender Management Service operate on a nationality self declaration
basis, which means that not all those referred for action will be in scope for removal.
Some offenders may later be confirmed as British nationals or exempt from immigration
control.</p><p>The removals shown are not a representative proportion of those referred
in the same period. Those referred will not always be removable in the same year due
to sentence length. The removals data will include those who have been referred prior
to the period shown in the table.</p><p>Please note that figures prior to the 2011/12
financial year precede the implementation of a later reporting application and as
such were not subject to the same level of data assurance for data recorded after
2011/12.</p><br />
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