Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 18 January 2023 to Question 126658, how many of the remaining places on Pathway 3 in Year one will be (a) filled and (b) carried over to Year Two.

Under Pathway 3, in the first year, up to 1,500 places will be offered to eligible at-risk British Council contractors, GardaWorld contractors, and Chevening alumni in Afghanistan or the region. This includes their eligible family members.

This route was open for expressions of interest between 20 June and 15 August 2022. We received over 11,400 expressions of interest which have had to be assessed individually.

The FCDO are assessing eligibility and communicating decisions on eligibility in principle to those who submitted an EOI. To date, over 1000 of the 1500 places available in the first year of Pathway 3 have been allocated, subject to security checks.

If an individual is offered a resettlement place in the first year but is unable to travel, we will honour the commitment to resettle them to the UK [subject to completion of the necessary checks] up until the end of the Scheme.