Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what advice her Department is issuing to Afghan nationals relocated to the UK under (a) Operation Pitting and (b) Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy when their Indefinite Leave to Remain status is not regularised within six months.

Following the policy statement, the Government published on 13 September, we will be working through the cases of those who have recently arrived from Afghanistan and are processing them in line with the published policy.

The Home Office is contacting those here in the UK under the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy and those moving onto the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme, in order to assist them to obtain Indefinite Leave to Remain status.

No one will be required to leave the United Kingdom, or be disadvantaged in any way, while we work through their cases.

More information can be found in the Afghanistan Resettlement and Immigration Policy Statement.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/afghanistan-resettlement-and-immigration-policy-statement/afghanistan-resettlement-and-immigration-policy-statement-accessible-version#afghan-relocations-and-assistance-policy