25 days ago
Irish News
Just 22 people, including eight children, have been resettled in the UK having fled Afghanistan under part of a Government scheme which promised to help vulnerable refugees. The Refugee Council said the contrast showed the Government needed to “urgently rethink its approach and expand access to refugee visas”. The Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) was formally launched in January 2022 – although 7,141 Afghans had been resettled by December 2021 as people arrived in the UK under the summer evacuation exercise that year. A total of 468 people were resettled under this pathway last year, the latest Home Office figures showed. “The fact that the number of Afghans coming across the Channel increased six-fold but only 22 arrived on the Afghan Resettlement Scheme shows how the Government needs to urgently rethink its approach and expand access to refugee visas.
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