Refugees: Afghanistan
(asked on 8th June 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Afghan interpreters are still eligible for relocation to the UK; and under which schemes.
This question was answered on 22nd June 2022
As of 15 June 2022, there are approximately 792 ARAP principals who have been confirmed as being eligible for relocation but have not yet arrived in the UK.
Category 2 of the ARAP scheme requires eligible persons to have been directly employed by HMG or contracted to provide linguistic services in support of the UK's Armed Forces, on or after 1 October 2001. It is not possible to provide a breakdown of the total figure by job role.