Home secretary urged to let hero Afghans bring their families to UK after major data leak put thousands at risk
The government was invited to allow the hero Afghans to give shelter in England after putting the lives of up to 100,000 people from Taliban, a major data violation.
More than 50 refugee charities and lawyers wrote to Yette Cooper and called on to be easier to bring family members of the Afghans who were allowed to be moved to England because of their British connections. – Many of them are at risk of retaliation – with them.
Pleas comes after the revelation of the “disaster” data leakage. The Ministry of Defense, which includes the details of thousands of Afghan, who said that they were in danger from the Taliban in February 2022 and applied for the online sacred area in England.
Data set accidentally sent by a member of an armed forces, He included the personal details of the Afghans who support the British troops to seek refugees in the UK in the United Kingdom. The leak was covered by a Superinjunction removed in July. Independent Draconian objected to his legal decision in the Supreme Court.
Mrs. Cooper said, “If he wants to prevent the worst consequences of data leaks into a terrible reality”, the government was told to the government “there is no time to waste”.
Aid workers and lawyers, including asylum assistance and modern slavery charity, said to Mrs. Cooper: “The British government has a moral responsibility towards the Afghan people, including data leakage, and has no choice but to seek security in other places.
“The 2022 data violation has been subjected to the risk of retaliation that they are still not aware of the Afghans in the country, and the Supreme Court admitted that the imposition of these people may increase the risks encountered while lifting Superinjunction.”
The letter continued: “Making bad decisions could have been subjected to serious damages, many of these people had family ties”.
“It is important that those who re -settle under the Arabs and ACRs can live in safety and give them a fair opportunity for them to reunite with their families.”
Unlike the asylum ways, the Afghans using Arabs cannot sponsor family members to come to England in accordance with the rules of refugee meeting. The same applies to those who are displaced under ACRs designed to help support British values such as journalists or women’s rights activists. However, some may apply for a separate migration.
However, charities and rights groups say that these family routes are very restrictive and that they may require highly cost -effective application fees and abundant, special documents ”. Decision makers often reject these applications from their families, leading to long objections.
For the Afghan women, all Parliamentary Group President Lib Dem Deputy Wendy Chamberlain said: “There is anecdot of anecdot of retaliation by the Taliban on family members – if the government wants to prevent the data leakage of data leakage into a terrible reality, there is no time to waste.
“It is clear that the home office must desperately adopt a pragmatic and compassionate approach to allow the Afghans who re -settled in the UK to reunite with their families. These plans resulted in the last exposure of 2022 data leakage.”
Emphasized in a recent situation Independent, For almost twenty years, a security guard at the British Embassy in Kabul could not bring his two largest sons to England.
He said that his family is struggling to leave: uz We want to do everything we can and know the injustice of our home office in our case to come together again, ”he said.
With the legal support of refugee, Isaac Shaffer said that it was “critical” to decide on Arab cases in the light of the government’s data violation.
He added that most of the people he helped were “waiting for more than a year for a final decision about the Arab application, and he is hiding all over, in fear and extraordinary insecure conditions ,, he added:“ The knowledge of this data violation has only made this fear and uncertainty even worse ”.
Charity Ramfel CEO James Tullett, who helped coordinate the letter, said: “The government admitted that the people they have resettled and the support offer came from the family at the family.
“Allow Afghan families to reunite will not solve all problems associated with data leakage, but will make a monumental difference for the affected families”.
For a comment, the Ministry of Interior was contacted.
