Visas: Afghanistan

(asked on 16th July 2018) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many successful spousal visa applications there have been for the (a) spouses and (b) children of Afghan interpreters who relocated to the UK under the Government's Redundancy Scheme.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 19th July 2018

Afghan interpreters who qualify to come to the UK under the relocation schemes are able to bring qualifying dependant family members with them. To date, around 400 former Afghan interpreters have relocated to the UK with their families making around 1,100 people in total.

The Home Office has committed to looking at what can be done to improve the process for Afghan interpreters to bring to the UK those otherwise eligible dependents who did not travel and who remain in Afghanistan.

We do not publish a breakdown of data relating to visa applications received from family members of those resettled under the ex-gratia scheme.

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