This is main applicants and dependents. 9 Please note this figure is main applicants and dependents – so to convey the full range of those affected – whereas the 72,597 figure is main applicants only to enable comparison with the FOI data disaggregating by length of delays experienced in this 6months+ cohort e.g. those waiting for at least 6, 12 and 18months+, respectively. 10 Using figures for main applicant and dependent to convey the total number of people affected by a chronically slow decision system, and left in a preventable and costly limbo predicament. 11 Main applicants and dependents, Home Office FOI 71562 (attached), for period 1 January to 30 June 2022. 12 Main applicants only, Home Office FOI 71561 (attached), as at end of June 2022. 13 Ibid. 14 Ibid. 3 Need to urgently focus on the real crisis in asylum system: (a) chronic delays in decisions and inadmissibility procedure, resulting in (b) limbo for refugees and (c) grossly wasteful accommodation costs to private interests making major profits and dividends, with part of solution (d) a simpler refugee status determination procedure for swifter refugee status grants for manifestly well-founded claims from high recognition nationalities. 5.Eritrea 90% 795 30% 1,030 116% 2,228 134% 5,213 2,143 2,987 1,072 719 6.Sudan 89% 772 13% 875 87% 1,634 94% 3,170 1,058 1,393 761 886 7.Turkey 87% 364 130% 838 50% 1,256 20% 1,505 90 286 217 474 8.Russia 86% 119 141% 287 72% 493 15% 568 12 84 59 152 9.Uganda* 77% 132 52% 201 9% 219 -5% 209 0 24 36 127 10.Iran 74% 1,309 138% 3,116 44% 4,484 162% 11,768 1,833 7,867 1,529 1,571 11.Somalia 73% 218 72% 376 31% 493 78% 877 298 504 76 205 12.El Salvador 72% 74 690% 584 100% 1,167 59% 1,853 1,275 415 178 342 13.Occ.Pal.Ter.* 71% 154 34% 206 57% 323 33% 429 132 146 47 159 14.Vietnam 70% 1,148 84% 2,117 15% 2,427 32% 3,206 653 529 967 1,533 15.Kuwait 70% 176 31% 230 53% 352 159% 911 157 402 96 85 16.Afghanistan 69% 1,245 52% 1,892 24% 2,354 62% 3,819 1,040 1,916 523 809 17.Cameroon 67% 123 113% 262 14% 298 -5% 282 0 67 48 144 18.Malaysia 61% 139 90% 264 13% 298 23% 367 0 50 46 221 19.Egypt 54% 166 81% 300 58% 474 79% 849 137 351 137 244 20.DRC* 51% 109 26...