Afghanistan: Refugees

(asked on 18th April 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 18 April 2023 to Question 176544 to Afghanistan: Refugees, how many of the 54 applicants that have failed to respond to several attempts to contact them have (a) dependents cleared for relocation to the UK with these principals and (b) his Department established contact with.


Answered by
James Heappey Portrait
James Heappey
This question was answered on 24th April 2023

We have now re-established contact with one of the 54 ARAP eligible individuals with whom contact has been lost.

Of the now 53 remaining principals, 11 have confirmed ARAP-eligible dependants with our caseworkers. We have not received details of dependants for the other 42 principals. Clearance for onward movement to the UK will be subject to Home Office visa checks.

As noted in my previous response, applicants may fail to respond to our communications for a variety of reasons, such as a change in their contact details of which we were not informed. In some cases, applicants may decide to relocate elsewhere but fail to communicate that decision with us.

We continue to endeavour to re-establish contact with the remaining 53 applicants so that they can continue their relocation to the UK if they still wish to do so.

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