A scheme to resettle people fleeing Afghanistan is expected to be announced shortly.
There have been chaotic scenes at Kabul airport, as desperate people try to flee Afghanistan. The UK government has announced a scheme to resettle people from the country - but how have these schemes worked in the past?The government says the Afghan Citizens' Resettlement Scheme will aim to allow 5,000 Afghans to settle in the UK, with the long-term goal a total of 20,000.
They were identified by the UN and then vetted by the Home Office before being granted the right to settle in the UK. Just over 1,000 people have also been resettled in the UK since 2013 under a previous scheme called the Ex-Gratia Policy. But Ms Pinder said resettlement schemes were often too slow for crises such as the one unfolding in Afghanistan.
"When people are fleeing persecution, it just happens in a messy way," she said. "People will be coming off their own steam. They won't be waiting in a non-existent queue."Outside a small number of official resettlement schemes, which generally have narrow criteria for eligibility, the main way to settle in the UK is to seek asylum once within the country's borders.
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