The man, who gathered information to help coalition forces in their war against the Taliban, came to the UK on a small boat because he feared for his life and could not wait for help through official routes after the West’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. He applied for the Ministry of Defence’s Afghan relocations and assistance policy scheme, for those who worked with or for the UK government, two years ago but has not heard anything back.
The Independent first revealed that he had been threatened with deportation to Rwanda in August this year, but a week later, Home Office officials started to progress his asylum claim and sent him a questionnaire to fill out. The questionnaires are sent to applicants from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Libya, Syria and Yemen and take the place of an interview. These nationalities all have high asylum grant rates so the analyst believed he was safe to stay in the UK.
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