Tens of thousands of Afghans are still waiting to find out if they will be given sanctuary in the UK five years after the fall of Kabul, with a warning that “urgent intervention” is needed to relocate all families as planned by March 2029.
The National Audit Office (NAO) found that 37,950 people had arrived in the UK under various Afghan resettlement schemes by the end of 2025 – with nearly half of these people evacuated in 2021 in the fallout from the Taliban takeover.
