UK Border Force

Hi Everyone..

Has anyone attended the Assistant Immigration Officer (Pathway) interview yet?.

Hello guys I wanna make a new step in my life and I finally know what I want to do I wanna be a immigration assistant officer but I don't know how to apply for it or even how to go about it can someone help me plz thanks

Not seen anything on civil service site for a while.
Good luck!!!
Live in Yorkshire and had 3 interviews in London in 2014. All on hold, recruitment freeze etc
Am hopeful but timescale may be over a year...

What makes you think it will be over a year?


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Timescale over a year!
What I mean is from application to paid employment maybe about 1 year.
Maybe other people have different experiences with timescale, but don't expect a quick decision was my initial point!
Example: Immigration officer (pathway), applied end of September 2014, 1st interview Monday 9th Feb 2015.

Its a joke isn't it?! I received my SC clearance in Sept only to be told 2 days later that all remaining posts had been suspended due to an overspend. Like others I was told that we would be contacted "early 2015". Not once has anyone contacted me with an update. I phoned mid Jan and was told not to phone again as they will contact us with updates.
I'm very dubious about leaving it to them as through my whole eleven month process I had to chase them every step of the way. The correspondence and updates from UKBF was non existent from start to finish.
Wrong forms sent out, duplicate paperwork, completed forms sat on someone's desk for six weeks without being actioned.... These are all things I had to deal with during my application. On missing the deadline by two days from when I received my SC and the posts being put on hold, I wrote to the head of the staffing unit explaining the problems I have had and asking for explanations. Didn't even get a proper reply. Just some generic email reference the cuts.
I have friends and family in the job who assure me that we will be contacted after the start of the new financial year. They are so short staffed its unbelievable. As it is they are unable to do their jobs properly at the moment.
The worrying thing is for all the hearsay and assurances, no one in an official capacity is willing to confirm this yet. I have heard that certain areas of ukbf need to make further cuts/savings.
As frustrating and annoying this all is, I do appreciate these things happen regarding budgets and overspend etc... I just wish someone, somewhere would have the balls and decency to make a decision or at least have the courtesy to keep us posted.
I can't believe that in a government department of that size and magnitude, no one knows what's going to happen regarding the forthcoming budget that is only a month away!

Its a joke isn't it?! I received my SC clearance in Sept only to be told 2 days later that all remaining posts had been suspended due to an overspend. Like others I was told that we would be contacted "early 2015". Not once has anyone contacted me with an update. I phoned mid Jan and was told not to phone again as they will contact us with updates.
I'm very dubious about leaving it to them as through my whole eleven month process I had to chase them every step of the way. The correspondence and updates from UKBF was non existent from start to finish.
Wrong forms sent out, duplicate paperwork, completed forms sat on someone's desk for six weeks without being actioned.... These are all things I had to deal with during my application. On missing the deadline by two days from when I received my SC and the posts being put on hold, I wrote to the head of the staffing unit explaining the problems I have had and asking for explanations. Didn't even get a proper reply. Just some generic email reference the cuts.
I have friends and family in the job who assure me that we will be contacted after the start of the new financial year. They are so short staffed its unbelievable. As it is they are unable to do their jobs properly at the moment.
The worrying thing is for all the hearsay and assurances, no one in an official capacity is willing to confirm this yet. I have heard that certain areas of ukbf need to make further cuts/savings.
As frustrating and annoying this all is, I do appreciate these things happen regarding budgets and overspend etc... I just wish someone, somewhere would have the balls and decency to make a decision or at least have the courtesy to keep us posted.
I can't believe that in a government department of that size and magnitude, no one knows what's going to happen regarding the forthcoming budget that is only a month away!