{"id":35916,"date":"2021-08-26T01:21:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T16:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/25\/uk-nationals-of-afghan-origin-being-overlooked-in-kabul-airlift-claim-lawyers"},"modified":"2021-08-26T01:21:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T16:21:57","slug":"uk-nationals-of-afghan-origin-being-overlooked-in-kabul-airlift-claim-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35916","title":{"rendered":"UK nationals of Afghan origin being overlooked in Kabul airlift, claim lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most single nationality Britons now evacuated but some with dual citizenship say they are being given lower priority<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/25\/afghanistan-live-news-taliban-kabul-joe-biden-firm-31-august-deadline-us-troops-latest-updates\">Afghanistan: live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>British nationals of Afghan origin are being overlooked in the evacuation from Kabul, lawyers and campaigners have claimed as Dominic Raab said nearly all single-nationality UK citizens have been airlifted from the Taliban-controlled country.<\/p>\n<p>About 50 British citizens, many with dual Afghan nationality, were understood to be outside Kabul airport on Wednesday. Some said they were waving their UK passports aloft in a desperate bid to flee as the deadline for western forces\u2019 departure closed in.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/25\/uk-nationals-of-afghan-origin-being-overlooked-in-kabul-airlift-claim-lawyers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,950,1879,717,4,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-dominic-raab","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","category-immigration-and-asylum","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35917,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35916\/revisions\/35917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}