カテゴリー: Immigration and asylum
Evacuation of employees, not contractors, ‘splitting hairs’, says HRW, warning of days left to save livesAfghan employees who worked as contractors on UK aid projects fear for their lives after not being granted resettlement in Britain.The Guardian has…
Rossella Pagliuchi-Lor tells MPs proposed legislation could end up punishing those fleeing Taliban if travelling by illegal routesThe UN’s refugee chief in London has said the introduction of the new nationality and borders bill could criminalise Afgha…
Afghans evacuated to UK say they have been left in quarantine conditions longer than necessaryAfghans evacuated to the UK feel like prisoners after being left trapped in quarantine conditions longer than necessary, several of them have told the Guardia…
The EU increasingly embraces the idea of a continental identity, one that’s white and Christian. Is it really the liberal body of remainer lore?When Kabul fell in mid-August, almost the first reaction of European leaders was fear of another wave of ref…
Volunteers ‘operating blind’ about refugees’ needs, while hotels left with no staff to distribute aidThe government’s response towards families evacuated from Afghanistan to Britain has been “chaotic and uncoordinated”, hampering volunteers’ efforts to…
Mark Newbury highlights the lack of support for refugees, David Beswick writes of the mismanagement of Afghanistan evacuations and Dr Richard Carter draws attention to the UK’s diminishing influenceNesrine Malik’s excellent article (For Afghan refugees…
Block on decisions on Afghan protection claims discovered by asylum seeker’s lawyerAn Afghan man who arrived in the UK at the age of 14 after fleeing persecution has been “left in limbo” because of a Home Office policy blocking decisions on all asylum …
Student and English teacher Mursal Rasa Jamili, 23, was evacuated to the UK from Kabul with her two sistersMursal Rasa Jamili, a 23-year-old final-year university student and English teacher in Kabul, was evacuated to the UK with her two sisters. Here …
Most single nationality Britons now evacuated but some with dual citizenship say they are being given lower priorityAfghanistan: live updatesBritish nationals of Afghan origin are being overlooked in the evacuation from Kabul, lawyers and campaigners h…
Hotel where refugee Mohammed Munib Majeedi died was subject of fire enforcement actionThe hotel where a five-year-old Afghan refugee fell to his death last week was the subject of a fire enforcement action when the Home Office placed Afghan families t…
UK defence secretary says Paul Farthing, his team and animals can leave on chartered planeA former Royal Marine who has been campaigning to have dozens of people and hundreds of animals at his sanctuary evacuated from Afghanistan has been offered a gli…
Disappointment as much as fear and dread felt by members of Afghan diaspora as they try to get family outA UK-based Afghan woman whose relatives worked with US and Nato forces and international humanitarian organisations has described a frantic effort …
A grindingly slow bureaucratic machine crushes asylum seekers, and the borders bill will only make things worseHorrifying scenes are unfolding in Afghanistan. Taliban forces are reportedly going door to door, making blacklists of anyone who has worked …
More Afghans are arriving in norther France hoping to make it across the Channel to claim asylum in the UKSalaam Khan had not long ago woken up after another fruitless night attempting to cross the Channel from Calais and was on alert for the arrival o…
PM’s request to be made at G7 summit as Taliban increases grip on access to flightsBoris Johnson will lobby Joe Biden at the G7 leaders’ summit, No 10 has said, pleading with him to keep US troops at Kabul airport beyond the end of August, after a week…