Refugees: Afghanistan

(asked on 10th May 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many principal applicants who received Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy eligibility letters from her Department and were refused entry to the UK by her Department on national security grounds have subsequently had that refusal withdrawn or overturned and have been allowed entry to the UK.


Answered by
Robert Jenrick Portrait
Robert Jenrick
This question was answered on 19th May 2023

The Home Office do not hold centralised data on this.

The latest Immigration System Statistics, year ending December 2022, show that since their first arrivals in 2021, the Afghan schemes (ACRS and ARAP) have resettled a total of 21,387 people.

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