Immigration and asylum
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Afghan refugees face homelessness under UK plans, say rights groups
Ministers announce refugees in hotels will be offered move to a home on condition they accept first offerPolit…
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MoD apologises for asking Afghans to get Taliban’s approval to come to UK
Citizens who worked with British government or helped army told to get necessary documents stamped by the auth…
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Afghan refugee in London told to give up doctorate and move to Yorkshire
University asks home secretary to intervene in move that would deprive him of scholarship and teaching rolesA …
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Afghan refugees protest against plans to move them from London to Yorkshire
Some of the refugees worked alongside British army before Taliban took power in 2021Afghan refugees have prote…
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UK government urged to honour pledge to Afghan refugees’ families
Exclusive: Charities and activists call on PM to follow through on pledge to allow families to resettle in UK …
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British Council workers ‘hunted’ in Afghanistan allowed to come to UK
Contractors forced to move between safe houses given green light to leave but others remain in the countryNear…
- Afghanistan, BBC, Ben Wallace, Immigration and asylum, Media, Politics, South and Central Asia, Suella Braverman, UK news
Ministers accused of unlawfully denying Afghan journalists UK visas
Ben Wallace and Suella Braverman ‘turned their back’ on former BBC journalists who are in danger, high court t…
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Revealed: UK has failed to resettle Afghans facing torture and death despite promise
Those who risked their lives helping British government face a ‘toxic combination of incompetence and indiffer…
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Seasonal fruit pickers left thousands in debt after being sent home early from UK farms
Nepali workers who quit jobs and borrowed cash to come to UK are out of work just weeks after arrivingNepali w…
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Tamil refugees on Chagos Islands fear deportation under Rwanda-type plan
UK government lawyers tell asylum seekers they can return to Sri Lanka or be removed to undisclosed countryTam…
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Refugee wrongly labelled child murderer says decades of his life wasted
Mayooran Thangaratnam fled Sri Lanka for the UK in 2003 after brutal murder of his father but was repeatedly r…
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UK treatment of Afghan refugees ‘continues to be source of shame’
MoD sources accuse other parts of Whitehall of failing to do enough to help Afghans who worked with British fo…
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‘A hotel is not home’: Afghan families still wait for a place of their own in UK
Families who fled Taliban rule say they are grateful for the help they have received but long for a home where…
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After 75 years, the hidden memories of India’s partition are rising up through Britain’s generations | Kavita Puri
Those whose lived through the formation of India and Pakistan are telling their stories – and their grandchild…
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Foreign Office admits multiple errors in UK’s exit from Afghanistan
Officials say they can not provide hope of resettlement for Afghans who worked for UK civilian schemesThe UK F…