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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Diane Taylor

UK government urged to honour pledge to Afghan refugees’ families

Hundreds of people gather near a US Air Force C-17 transport plane at the perimeter of the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 16 August 2021.
It has has been a year since the scheme for Afghans rescued under Operation Pitting, known as the Afghan citizens resettlement scheme, was launched. Photograph: Shekib Rahmani/AP

More than 100 charities and activists are calling on the prime minister to facilitate the resettlement of family members of thousands of Afghans who came to the UK under a government scheme.

The government pledged to resettle family members in the UK but at the moment there is no mechanism for them to do this. Campaigners have accused the government of abandoning Afghans in danger who were promised the right to reunite with family members in the UK.

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