Refugees: Afghanistan

(asked on 9th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the international partners and NGOs that her Department plans to work with to welcome wider groups of Afghans via the third pathway of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme.


Answered by
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Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 21st March 2022

The Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme commenced on 6 January, providing up to 20,000 women, children and others at risk with a safe and legal route to resettle in the UK.

The scheme prioritises those who have assisted UK efforts in Afghanistan and stood up for UK values such as democracy, women’s rights, freedom of speech and rule of law; and vulnerable people such as women and girls at risk, and members of minority groups (including ethnic / religious minorities and LGBT+).

In the first year of this third referral pathway, the Government will offer ACRS places to the most at risk British Council and GardaWorld contractors and Chevening alumni. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office will be in touch with those eligible to support them through the next steps.

We committed to working with international partners and NGOs to welcome wider groups of Afghans at risk beyond year one.

We will provide further information in due course.

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