Claim LD05-HQ-C15 (v1.0)

A 2020 judicial-review challenge alleging race discrimination and feedback-loop effects was followed by the Home Office’s withdrawal of its original visa Streaming Tool before a merits ruling; successor routing systems later remained in production.

Provenance and status

Claim type: FACT (as printed: “FACT”)
Publication status: ELIGIBLE (STRONG_SCOPE, LEGAL_TIME) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH STRONG LEGAL/TIME QUALIFIER”)
Verification state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
Does not license: Claim that a court ruled the original tool unlawful/discriminatory; claim that 2023 nationality rules apply unchanged to every 2026 CARS variant
Source (field 6, as printed): ICIBI 2023 inspection; Home Office transparency/guidance; JCWI/Foxglove litigation record for claimant position
Source type (field 7): MULTIPLE_SOURCE_TYPES (as printed: “Independent inspector + government primary + advocacy/legal-party material”)
Institutional position: Inspector/government/claimants
Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity): RAPIDLY_MATURING (as printed: “RAPIDLY MATURING”)
Recorded date: 2026-09-25
Currentness / correction: This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.

Version

Pinned version v1.0 (entry LD05-HQ-C15--v1.0) — this page never floats to newer evidence.

This pinned version is also the current version.

Versions:v1.0 · current

Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)

“ICIBI 2023 inspection; Home Office transparency/guidance; JCWI/Foxglove litigation record for claimant position” → SRC-R04-HOME-OFFICE-ROUTING-SOURCE-SET--v1.0 — ICIBI 2023 inspection; Home Office transparency/guidance; JCWI/Foxglove litigation record for claimant position; class MULTIPLE_SOURCE_TYPES (explicit public provenance pin)

All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)

#	Canonical field	Canonical value (verbatim)	Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2)
1	CLAIM ID	LD05-HQ-C15	—
2	PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM	A 2020 judicial-review challenge alleging race discrimination and feedback-loop effects was followed by the Home Office’s withdrawal of its original visa Streaming Tool before a merits ruling; successor routing systems later remained in production.	—
3	CLAIM TYPE	FACT	base_types: FACT
4	RESEARCH STRAND	E/G	—
5	MATURITY	RAPIDLY MATURING	states: RAPIDLY_MATURING
6	SOURCE	ICIBI 2023 inspection; Home Office transparency/guidance; JCWI/Foxglove litigation record for claimant position	source_ids: SRC-R04-HOME-OFFICE-ROUTING-SOURCE-SET
7	SOURCE TYPE	Independent inspector + government primary + advocacy/legal-party material	classes: MULTIPLE_SOURCE_TYPES
8	INSTITUTIONAL POSITION	Inspector/government/claimants	—
9	SCOPE	UK visa routing, 2015–2025	—
10	DESIGN	Documentary/legal/administrative review	—
11	SAMPLE / DATASET	Home Office routing systems and guidance	—
12	MODEL / TOOL / VERSION	Streaming Tool; successor CARS variants	—
13	COMPARATOR	Original tool vs redesigned routing	—
14	MAIN RESULT	Original tool withdrawn during litigation; CARS variants later used for complexity routing; final visa decision remains human	—
15	INFERENTIAL TARGET	Contestation-driven redesign and persistence of routing function	—
16	DOES NOT LICENSE	Claim that a court ruled the original tool unlawful/discriminatory; claim that 2023 nationality rules apply unchanged to every 2026 CARS variant	—
17	VERIFICATION STATE	CONTENT VERIFIED	state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN
18	LIMITATIONS	Route-specific current attributes require versioned checking	—
19	CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES	ICIBI 2017/2023; ATRS 2024; guidance 2025	—
20	GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE	UK/English	—
21	DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER	Routing can change scrutiny and decision-maker grade	—
22	R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS	D5, D6.3, D6.4, L-A	—
23	WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM?	New official documentation showing routing function removed or materially redesigned	—
24	PUBLICATION STATUS	ELIGIBLE WITH STRONG LEGAL/TIME QUALIFIER	state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: STRONG_SCOPE, LEGAL_TIME
25	RECORDED DATE	2026-09-25	—

Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: D5 (DOMAIN); D6.3 (SUB_AREA); D6.4 (SUB_AREA); L-A (LENS)

Cited by Living Debate versions

LD-05 v0.1

Research-of-record provenance

Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 ed187032ba904ddcb7157e97f93c67b9266f575c642e586c642ef14878d7f05b.

Frozen Drive-derived inputs

R04 — LD-05 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0 — LOCKED (v1.0) — Drive ID 1WkAv7jmWIrr1GBmYSv66jDc8m222Yd9z; revision: NOT_EXPOSED_BY_DRIVE_TEXT_EXPORT; Drive modified ; block “ENTRY 15 — LD05-HQ-C15” SHA-256 762232bb955bd39b9ef07a8cbf351b8f36ce3688d8a9afc3b0bfa8164551192e; SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status “CURRENT.”; frozen fixture fixtures/frozen/r04-ld05-claim-ledger-v1.0.

Builder decisions (not Drive data)

VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the canonical ledger artifact version (R04 — LD-05 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0); Implementation Architecture Selection §5
CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status for "R04 — LD-05 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0 — LOCKED": "CURRENT."
FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-R04-HOME-OFFICE-ROUTING-SOURCE-SET--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 15 — LD05-HQ-C15 cites "ICIBI 2023 inspection; Home Office transparency/guidance; JCWI/Foxglove litigation record for claimant position"; Central HQ ruling embedded in Issue (this issue), item 4; the citation is the whole verbatim frozen field-6 text of this ClaimVersion, equal to the composite Source's canonical label.
SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-R04-HOME-OFFICE-ROUTING-SOURCE-SET--v1.0 — basis: Issue #5 proof rendering (Architecture Proof Protocol v0.1 AP-08 / Amendment v1.2 §6): explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion — the pinned field-6 Source record.