UK government resettled no Afghan refugees under scheme, one year after launch

Refugees evacuated from Afghanistan in Leeds, UK on November 30, 2021 [Danny Lawson/WPA Pool/Getty Images]

The British government has, so far, failed to deliver on its promise to resettle tens of thousands of vulnerable Afghans in the United Kingdom over the coming years, a year after it made such guarantees following the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021. The Afghan Citizens' Resettlement Scheme (ACRS), which was announced upon the Taliban takeover and was set up exactly 12 months ago, pledged to resettle up to 20,000 vulnerable Afghans in the coming years and 5,000 in the first year. The government – then under former Prime Minister Boris Johnson – aimed to achieve that through three pathways. The first was the protection of those already settled in the UK; the second was the resettlement of those […] Source

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