Resident & Visa Status Hotel Quarantine
Dear Minister for Home Affairs,
I would like to obtain a rough breakdown of the number of citizens, permanent residents & other visa types being processed through hotel quarantine and the type of visas held by those that are not citizens, permanent residents or holding temporary residency status.
Yours faithfully,
Tim Gregson.
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FOI Request: FA 21/03/00013
File Number: OBJ2021/7272
Dear Mr Gregson
Acknowledgement of Freedom of Information Access request
I refer to your correspondence received on 21 February 2021 seeking access to documents held by the Department of Home Affairs (the Department) under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (the FOI Act).
Scope of request
You have requested access to the following:
I would like to obtain a rough breakdown of the number of citizens, permanent residents & other visa types being processed through hotel quarantine and the type of visas held by those that are not citizens, permanent residents or holding temporary residency status.
Your request was received by the Department on 21 February 2021 and has been allocated FOI request number FA 21/03/00013 . Please include your FOI request number in all correspondence with the Freedom of Information Section.
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Kind regards,
FOI Officer
Freedom of Information
Department of Home Affairs
E: [Minister for Home Affairs request email]
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In reply please quote:
FOI Request: FA 21/03/00013
File Number: OBJ2021/7272
Dear Mr Gregson
In order to process your request in a timely manner, FOI is seeking some further clarification to assist the relevant business area in providing the data you seek.
Can you please clarify a specific date range for example from March 2020 until the date the request was lodged or January 2021 until the date the request was lodged.
Please respond by Friday 05 March to allow for FOI to continue processing your request as soon as possible.
Thank you
FOI Officer
Freedom of Information
Department of Home Affairs
E: [Minister for Home Affairs request email]
OFFICIAL
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In reply please quote:
FOI Request: FA 21/03/00013
File Number: OBJ2021/7272
Dear Mr Gregson
I refer to our email below where we asked for further information so that we could process this request. To date, it appears that we have not received a response and therefore are unable to action this request.
If we do not receive a response by close of business Thursday 11 March, the request will be considered closed and no further action will be taken on it.
Kind Regards,
FOI Officer
Freedom of Information
Department of Home Affairs
E: [Minister for Home Affairs request email]
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