カテゴリー: Immigration and asylum
Ministers announce refugees in hotels will be offered move to a home on condition they accept first offerPolitics live – latest updatesPeople who fled the Taliban in Afghanistan are at risk of homelessness in the UK, humanitarian groups have warned, af…
Citizens who worked with British government or helped army told to get necessary documents stamped by the authoritiesThe Ministry of Defence has apologised after an investigation found Afghan applicants to a resettlement scheme were told they could onl…
University asks home secretary to intervene in move that would deprive him of scholarship and teaching rolesA Chevening academic will be forced to give up a doctorate, a scholarship and teaching roles under Home Office plans to uproot Afghan refugees f…
Some of the refugees worked alongside British army before Taliban took power in 2021Afghan refugees have protested against the UK government’s plans to move them 200 miles from London to Yorkshire amid claims that they could challenge the decision in t…
Exclusive: Charities and activists call on PM to follow through on pledge to allow families to resettle in UK More than 100 charities and activists are calling on the prime minister to facilitate the resettlement of family members of thousands of Afgha…
Contractors forced to move between safe houses given green light to leave but others remain in the countryNearly 100 British Council contractors forced to live in hiding since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan have been given the green light to come …
Ben Wallace and Suella Braverman ‘turned their back’ on former BBC journalists who are in danger, high court toldMinisters have unlawfully “turned their back” on former BBC journalists whose lives are at risk from the Taliban by refusing to relocate th…
Those who risked their lives helping British government face a ‘toxic combination of incompetence and indifference’Afghan nationals who were promised resettlement to the UK nearly a year ago are facing torture and death while they wait for a response f…
Nepali workers who quit jobs and borrowed cash to come to UK are out of work just weeks after arrivingNepali workers hired to pick fruit on British farms say they have been left thousands of pounds in debt after being sent home only weeks after they ar…
UK government lawyers tell asylum seekers they can return to Sri Lanka or be removed to undisclosed countryTamil refugees seeking asylum from the British-claimed Chagos Islands face being forcibly removed to a third country under Rwanda-style plans dra…
Mayooran Thangaratnam fled Sri Lanka for the UK in 2003 after brutal murder of his father but was repeatedly refused asylum A refugee who was wrongly recorded as being a child murderer by the Home Office says delays in his case have led to him wasting …
MoD sources accuse other parts of Whitehall of failing to do enough to help Afghans who worked with British forcesTwo RAF flights carrying as many as 500 Afghans who worked with British forces and their relatives are landing in the UK each month from P…
Families who fled Taliban rule say they are grateful for the help they have received but long for a home where they can settleThe west London hotel where Fawzia Amini, a senior Afghan judge, her husband and their four daughters have lived for the last …
Those whose lived through the formation of India and Pakistan are telling their stories – and their grandchildren are asking questionsTwo sisters handed me a piece of paper that was faded and yellow. On it were typewritten words from their father. He h…
Officials say they can not provide hope of resettlement for Afghans who worked for UK civilian schemesThe UK Foreign Office has admitted a catalogue of errors over its handling of Britain’s exit from Afghanistan, but has shut the door on many Afghans w…