Immigration Report
Month Ending: December 2019
Part One: This Month's Stats
Immigration cases carried forward from November 2019: A small number of new immigration applications where handed-off at the time of the current Minister taking office. Each of those applicants were contacted directly by email, but only one (1) replied or took action. Additionally, each of the existing immigration cases that were 'live' when the new Minister took office had reached the statutory limit put in place by LEX.E.4 and were all, subsequently, rejected. Thus, one (1) immigration case was carried forward from the previous period.
Number of new applications received in December 2019: Four (4).
- Of which, were rejected outright: One (1) for use of profanity and wanton remarks in the application.
- of which, the applicant created a Wittenberg account: Three (3).
Number of active cases leading to a naturalization: Zero (0).
Adjustments: One (1) - A case where an application was rejected per LEX.E.4, but the applicant since returned. Immigration authorities has granted 'visitor status' to this applicant and they await an Act of the Ziu for naturalization to occur.
Number of active immigration cases carrying forward to the next period: Five (5).
Part Two: Administrative tasks completed and policy decisions made by immigration authorities in the reporting period
a) Permanent Secretary for Immigration remains vacant: The Minister of the Interior has decided not to delegate the duties of immigration until all planned reforms are in place.
b) Status of immigration in relation to migration to 'New Wittenberg': Immigration services carried out business as normal on 'old Witt' during the month of December. From 1st January 2020, immigration shall formally migrate to 'new Witt'. All new applications in the new year shall be posted on the new forum and any applicants being carried forward shall be asked to make new accounts on the new forum.
c) Immigration application backlog caught up with: The backlog of applications has been dealt with. All applicants have been contacted by email by the new Minister. Only one of these applicants replied and took action by creating a Witt account.
d) Changes made to the immigration application form: Some changes have been made to the application form on the main website of Talossa.com
--- i) The primary name field has been changed to read "Full Legal Name". Also, a guidance note has been added to this field, which reads: "Your full legal name is required here. This is the name that you would have printed on official documents like driving licences or ID cards.
--- ii) The secondary name field has been changed to read "What name do you wish to be known as (if different from above)?". Also, a guidance note has been added to this field, which reads: "Sometimes people go about in daily life with a name that is different than their actual legal name. Examples of this would be deed-poll name changes, married or divorced surnames, transgender name changes, nicknames, and professional aliases such as a pen name. It is fine to be known in Talossa with such names. If you fill in this box then this name will be displayed in your profile rather than your legal name, but we still require your legal name above for our records."
--- iii) The gender question has been changed from a drop-down menu of fixed options to a write-in text field.
e) New software implemented for back-end functions: The software used for handling the immigration application form has been changed from "FS Contact" to "CF7 Forms". This has allowed the following changes:
--- i) A simple email auto-responder to handle the initial application stage. This removes a redundant work stage for immigration officials and cuts down the time taken to handle the first contact stage of an application. Since this was implemented, the average time taken for applicants to send the application form through to the creation of a Witt account has been slashed to less than ten minutes. The time taken for full account approval (following security checks) has been slashed to less than twelve hours.
--- ii) The creation of a new immigration database. The data from the immigration application form is now automatically pushed into a database in the back-end. We no longer rely on email for this function. The handover of duties from one immigration official to the next will be completely smooth in the future as all data is now stored in a central location. Additionally, we will no longer suffer the problem of immigration applications ending up caught in email spam filters ever again.
f) New graphic/image created to replace text link. A new graphic/image has been created to replace a simple text link which points to the immigration application form. The image can be seen here: https://talossa.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/join-talossa.gif - The aim of this is to better grab the attention of possible prospectives passing through the site.
g) Immigration thread format changed: The immigration introduction threads have had the format changed to include boxes for use of immigration services. These boxes provide a space for the inclusion of important and relevant dates to an application as well as provide a space for immigration officials to append notes to an application.
Hello everyone. I am still around, just been busy. Not sure what to think of all this, to be honest. Happy New Year to you all.
Hello Steve, happy new year. Don't worry, the message above is mostly for citizens.
Azul everyone.
First post on this forum for me.
Just to reiterate, immigration applications wont start counting towards citizenship until a citizen has posted on witt, which either means posting on current (old) witt or posting after the witt switch, which may or may not be next week.
Also, I am without a laptop at the moment so not reading everything that gets posted here. If there is something urgent, like a petition, please either tag me on oldwitt or send me an email (to my Hotmail), facebook message or whatsapp.
Quote from: Glüc on January 23, 2020, 06:30:13 AM
Azul everyone.
First post on this forum for me.
Just to reiterate, immigration applications wont start counting towards citizenship until a citizen has posted on witt, which either means posting on current (old) witt or posting after the witt switch, which may or may not be next week.
Also, I am without a laptop at the moment so not reading everything that gets posted here. If there is something urgent, like a petition, please either tag me on oldwitt or send me an email (to my Hotmail), facebook message or whatsapp.
For now, I am explaining the situation to each new applicant and asking them to register on both boards.