Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of applications made to the Afghan Citizens’ Resettlement Scheme were successful in the period to June 2023.

Since 2015, just over half a million people were offered safe and legal routes into the UK. This includes those from country-specific schemes from Hong Kong, Syria, Afghanistan and Ukraine, in addition to global routes through the UNHCR and family reunion schemes.

The latest Immigration system statistics, year ending March 2023 - GOV.UK (opens in a new tab) (published on 25 May 2023, next statistics release due Aug 2023), show that since their first arrivals in 2021, the Afghan schemes – the ACRS and the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) - have resettled a total of 21,004 people.

The UK has made one of the largest commitments of any country to support those impacted by events in Afghanistan.

There is no application process for the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS). Instead, those who are eligible will be prioritised and referred for resettlement to the UK through one of the scheme’s three referral pathways. Further information on the ACRS can be found on the gov.uk website at:

Afghan citizens resettlement scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)