UK Immigration - Deadline for Home Office's family amnesty (one-off audit exercise).?

I have heard that a deadline of 7th July 2006 has now been imposed on the Home Office. This is with regards to the thousands of families who have made an application under the IND's one-off audit exercise where families who initially applied for asylum before 2000 will be granted indefinite leave to remain (ILR). Can anyone tell me about the latest developments with regards to the Family Amnesty?

The status of some of those whose claims have failed has since been regularised through the amnesty announced by the former Home Secretary, David Blunkett, on 24 Oct 2003. This granted Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR - effectively settlement) to all applicants who applied for asylum before 2 October 2000 and had at least one dependant child born before that date and still under 18. The government have declined to say how many people have so far qualified for this amnesty (House of Lords answer 4713 of 11 Nov 2004). Their press briefing at the time mentioned 50,000.

This is lifted from the website below - it does not give you the latest status of the amnesty but you may be able to obtain that info from this organisation. I assume getting the info out of the HO is like getting blood from a stone!!

http://www.migrationwatchuk.org/whatsnew...

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No but why should illegals be allowed to stay. Why should asylum seekers not return to their own country when safe. Could it be this Labour government has given them so much going back would affect their lifestyle against the free the support we give them?

Illegals need to be deported, not given amnesty.