Hello all

Please can someone help me locate an alternative number to the ones that are already on this website as the main number that is slready suggested on here "no longer accepts incoming calls"!!!

The main number 0870 606 7766 has an alternative number 8253 6700...how long has this change been in effect???

Does anyone else know of any other numbers that I can try please?

The number 8253 6710 does not work either!!!

Any ideas???

Regards


Edited:

Hello Heinz

Thanks for your post - I am calling from London anyway  (I live in an 0208 area) so would not need to dial the whole prefix anyway, or so I thought!!!

Regards

Hello Dave

Thanks for your reply - to clarify, what I meant by it "doesn't work" is this:-

The number now does not accept incoming calls, whereas it did not so long ago!!!

Sorry if I did not make this clear in my initial post - I will try as the number as you have suggested and will post back in due course.....

Thanks for your help.

Regards

happy37 wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2008 at 3:10pm:

Thanks. I have amended the entry accordingly. 

Quote:
To confirm that the 888004 number does not work Quote:


Hi getdown

Please confirm what you mean by the above quote...I am bit confused?

Thanks

happy37

Don't know if this one is any of use........


Work permits customer contact centre .....

Phone:  0114 207 4074

Fax:  0114 207 5861

Anyone adversely affected by the withdrawal of this geographic number should clearly submit an FOI (Freedom of Information Act) request challenging the policy basis on which the BIA selects phone numbers and whether it considered the relevant guidances from the Central Office of Information and the contents of Sir David Varney's report (Service Transformation - a better deal for citizens and businesses, a better deal for the taxpayer) in deciding to remove its geographic alternative phone numbers.

The BIA must surely receive a lot of calls from overseas so the use of 084/7 numbers seems especially unacceptable given the potential total inaccessibility issue when calling 084/7 numbers from overseas and the ridiculously high cost of calling these numbers from abroad.

See the COI Contact Centre Guide at www.coi.gov.uk/documents/gcc-third-edition.pdf from p.35 and para 3.51 onwards.

and

Sir David Varney's report starting at Page 53 onwards (p.58 of the PDF file) at:-

www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/pbr06_varney_review.pdf

Do you have more information? Where have you got the number from? Is it from a form and if so, what is the contact address?

The main Home Office number 020 70354848, option 1 gives a list of other numbers. Work visas are 0114 2074074.