Afghan Evacuees and UK
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Some Afghans at-risk seek to leave Afghanistan for neighoring countries.
Others travel to the Middle East or Europe. The United Kingdom has become a destination for some
refugees.
Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme. This website by
gov.uk provides details of the effort by the United Kingdom to assist
Afghan evacuees.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/afghan-citizens-resettlement-scheme
Free Movement
https://freemovement.org.uk/
House of Commons
UK Immigration Routes for Afghan Nationals, by Melanie Gower, House
of Commons Library, January 26, 2023, PDF, 45 pages.
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9307/CBP-9307.pdf
The Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford
https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/
News Articles about the UK
and Afghan Refugees and Immigrants
October 25, 2023,
"UK to charter flights for Afghan refugees stuck in Pakistan",
BBC News. Thousands of Afghans who worked with or for the United
Kingdom government in Afghanistan and fled the Taliban are now in
Pakistan waiting for relocation to the UK. Some have been waiting for
more than a year. The Afghan refugees face deportation back to
Afghanistan by Pakistani authorities.
October 16, 2023,
"Afghan asylum seekers and refugees in the UK", The Migration
Observatory.
October 16, 2023,
"Call to help resettle more Afghans who worked with British military",
BBC.
January 16, 2023,
"Operation Warm Welcome cools: over 9,000 Afghans still in temporary
accommodation", Free Movement. The effort to permanently
house thousands of Afghan evacuues has run into problems; critics cite a
flawed, underfunded, and poorly planned effort by the government.
December 13, 2022. Illegal in UK? Problems Ahead. The United Kingdom is
tightening up its regulations in an attempt to tackle illegal
immigration. Small boats have been entering the English coastlines from
France through the English Channel. The new rules will state that anyone
who is expelled from the UK because they enter illegally will no longer
be eligible to apply for asylum in the UK from abroad.
"UK's New Legislation Revokes Right to Remain for Those Reaching
Illegally", The Khaama Press.
December 3, 2022,
"Revealed: UK has failed to resettle Afghans facing torture and death
despite promise", The Guardian.
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