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Immigration: Middle East

Question for Home Office

UIN HL8100, tabled on 22 May 2018

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many interpreters previously employed by foreign nations in Iraq and Afghanistan have come to live in the UK.

Answered on

4 June 2018

The UK operates two schemes to assist current and former locally engaged staff in Afghanistan. In total 1173 people have been relocated to date, of which 415 were locally engaged staff.

The scheme in place to assist those who served with UK forces in Iraq is now closed. Under that scheme 1328 people were relocated of which 368 were locally engaged staff.

Not all of those people relocated were interpreters, however they all met the eligibility criteria of the particular scheme. We do not relocate those employed by other nations under these schemes.

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