Refugees: Afghanistan

(asked on 20th April 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking in respect of people who have applied for the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy scheme and who have not yet been contacted by his Department.


Answered by
James Heappey Portrait
James Heappey
This question was answered on 27th April 2022

The Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP) is one of the most generous relocation programmes in the world. It is not time-limited and will endure, facilitating the relocation of eligible Afghans and their families.

The ARAP Casework team will contact the applicants for requests for information during the eligibility process, and to provide updates on their application. We continue to receive ARAP applications at an unprecedented rate and more than 115,000 have been received since ARAP began in April 2021. I would like to assure the hon. Member that we are working at pace to consider each application on a case-by-case basis as quickly as possible and respond to applicants as soon as we can.

Applicants who wish to have updates of their case may contact the ARAP Casework team.

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