The UK is failing on its promise to help the most vulnerable Afghans come to the UK, MPs and charities say.
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As she is still in Afghanistan she is not eligible for the first year of the scheme, when only three specific at-risk groups who remain in the country are being considered. Asked what she thought would happen to her and her sister if they stayed in Afghanistan, Ghazal says: "Probably we will end our life, someone will kill us, or we will have a heart attack."Labour's shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock says the government promised to prioritise groups who stood up for democracy, including women's rights activists and LGBT campaigners.
"It really is shameful that we have failed to live up to our obligations and to support those people," he tells the BBC. After its withdrawal from Afghanistan, the UK pledged to resettle up to 20,000 more vulnerable Afghans in the coming years under the ACRS.Under pathway one, the first to be accepted under the ACRS were individuals who had already arrived in the UK as part of the original evacuation last year.
There are 1,500 places available under pathway three in the first year but the Home Office would not confirm whether people had started to arrive in the UK under this pathway yet.
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