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Between 1994 and 2006, around 36,000 Afghans claimed asylum in the UK. [7] Many whose claims were refused have not returned to Afghanistan, although the International Organization for Migration has helped some voluntarily return. [7] 5,540 Afghan nationals were granted British citizenship in 2008, down from 10,555 in 2007. [8]
The Home Office scheme, called Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS), is for those Afghans deemed vulnerable or at risk - with 1,917 people coming to the UK so far this year.
More than 15,000 people were evacuated from the Afghan capital Kabul to the UK during two weeks in August 2021. ... The UK government's resettlement programme is helping some of those settle in ...
Resettlement schemes for Afghans to come to the UK after the Taliban takeover will eventually close, the Government has indicated. Defence Secretary John Healey said more than 1,000 eligible ...
Contemporary Military Strategy and the Global War on Terror: US and UK Armed Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq 2001–2012 (2014) Fremont-Barnes, Gregory. The Anglo-Afghan Wars 1839–1919 (2014) Nawid, Senzil. 1997. “The State, the Clergy, and British Imperial Policy in Afghanistan During the 19th and Early 20th Centuries”.
[23] [24] [25] In December 2020, the UK government launched the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) scheme to offer relocation of eligible Afghans to the UK. An Afghan Threat and Risk Evaluation Unit (ATREU) was established at the British Embassy in Kabul to assess candidates. The scheme began to offer relocation or other assistance ...
The Government of the United Kingdom is divided into departments that each have responsibility, according to the government, for putting government policy into practice. [1] There are currently 24 ministerial departments, 20 non-ministerial departments, and 422 agencies and other public bodies, for a total of 465 departments. [2]
High Court judge orders ministers to relocate Afghan refugee stuck in Iran to UK as soon as possible