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James Heappey: We have worked hard to resolve tens of thousands of applications, giving individuals - eligible or not - the clarity they deserve. We now only have approximately 1,000 ARAP applications remaining of over 95,000 principal applications received. This number reflects a small number of complex cases we are working hard to resolve with other Government Departments. We are also working to assess...
James Heappey: The Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP) team at PJHQ continues to be augmented with additional staff to conduct detailed casework on outstanding applications and make the most appropriate eligibility decisions on these applications. As at 19 October the ARAP team has 59 members of staff from across the MOD to assist with this work. Work is ongoing to reform the workflows within the...
James Heappey: I fear this may be a red herring, inasmuch as indefinite leave to remain is an automatic part of the ARAP scheme. More than 5,000 ARAP-eligible personnel were brought out during Operation Pitting, and around 1,100 of the 2,000 who have come out since are also ARAPers. About another 150 or so ARAP principals from the original cohort who actually worked for us and were approved during Operation...
James Heappey: Leave Outside the Rules was the previous way of applying for Additional Family Members (AFM) under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP). AFM are now included within the ARAP immigration rules. ARAP eligibility entitles individuals to apply for AFM under ARAP only, not the Afghan Citizen Relocation Scheme. This makes it highly unlikely that principals would consider AFM and ACRS...
James Heappey: The current estimate of MOD cost of supporting the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP) is £8.25 million. This includes:Pre Op PITTING movement of ARAP persons to UK.The ARAP share for Op PITTING.Early costs arising from the movement of ARAP persons from 3rd The MOD continues to incur costs for the movement of persons to the UK, but is not responsible for the significant costs...
James Heappey: As mentioned in my response of 31 January 2023, Leave Outside the Rules was the previous way of applying for Additional Family Members (AFM) under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP). AFM are now included within the ARAP immigration rules. Afghan nationals can both submit their own ARAP application and be included on an AFM application submitted by a different applicant with...
James Heappey: ...is strongly committed to fulfilling its responsibilities to current and former Locally Employed Staff (LES) in Afghanistan and the MOD-administered Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) scheme is one of the most generous in the world. Around 2,000 people were relocated under the ARAP scheme before the start of Op PITTING with a further 5,000 evacuated during the operation...
James Heappey: The information requested can be found in the table below: Month ARAP Eligible Principals relocated to the UK ARAP Eligible family members relocated to the UK Total Number of ARAP Relocated Individuals June 2022 38 163 201 July 2022 39 377 416 August 2022 84 330 414 September 2022 133 516 649 October 2022 79 315 394 November 2022 73 330 403 The...
James Heappey: The Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP) is one of the most generous relocation programmes in the world. It is not time-limited and will endure, facilitating the relocation of eligible Afghans and their families. The ARAP Casework team will contact the applicants for requests for information during the eligibility process, and to provide updates on their application. We continue to...
James Heappey: ..., other governments in the region have asked that their support is not made public. We respect their wishes and are grateful for their support. As of 29 June 2022, we have approximately 200 ARAP principal applicants who have received their ARAP offer letters and whose relocation to the UK we are currently processing. Every ARAP application, including those that are ARAP eligible, is...
James Cleverly: The Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) scheme offers resettlement for eligible Afghan staff who have assisted the UK Government, and their families and others who have worked with the Government in exceptional circumstances. Any current or former Locally Employed Staff directly employed by HMG assessed to be at serious risk of threat to life are eligible to apply for ARAP...
Baroness Goldie: Since the ARAP schemed opened in April 2021, Defence has relocated over 9,500 ARAP eligible people to the UK, of this over 4,000 have been family members and other dependants. As of 15 June, 136 ARAP principals who have passed UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) checks are awaiting relocation to the UK from third countries. We cannot provide the number of ARAP dependants who have passed UK Visas...
James Heappey: Since 1 April 2023, a total of 67,338 ARAP applications have been found ineligible. ARAP was always intended to be a relocation scheme specifically for those who served in the employ of the British military (in all but a very narrow number of cases), or in support of wider UK national security objectives, as set out in the specific eligibility criteria in the ARAP policy. A finite number of...
James Heappey: All those ARAP eligible Afghans who were called forward to Hamid Karzai International Airport during OP PITTING had both had their eligibility for ARAP confirmed and also successfully undergone the Home Office visa process. As of 28 August 2021, 311 ARAP eligible individuals were not yet evacuated from Afghanistan. As of 10 December 2021, 166 of these are currently in Afghanistan. The ARAP...
James Heappey: Under the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP), an eligible applicant can be accompanied by a spouse over the age of 18 and their dependent children under the age of 18, however we will always consider exceptionally compelling and compassionate circumstances for additional dependants on a case-by-case basis. The ARAP Leave Outside The Rules (LOTR) scheme is enduring, and under this...
Baroness Goldie: ...not be able to evacuate all those we would hope to, and due to the pace at which we continue to receive and assess applications for relocation under the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP), it is not possible to quantify the number of applicants that have been rejected at this time. Since its launch in April of this year, we have refused a proportion of applicants to the ARAP...
Ben Wallace: ...I committed to update the House on an investigation into MOD data breaches concerning the email addresses of Afghan nationals who are eligible for the Afghanistan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP), but at that time remained in Afghanistan. Incident The first report of a data breach was received on the evening of 20 September and consisted of 245 live email addresses. On 22...
James Heappey: The Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP) was launched in April 2021 by a team of seven civil servants. The original ARAP team has been augmented with significant additional civilian and military resource. As at 21 September, a total of 43 additional civilian staff and 103 military staff had been deployed for periods varying from a few weeks to six months to support the delivery of...
Nusrat Ghani: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what date the oldest application that is yet to be fully processed was submitted to his Department through the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP); how many staff in his Department are assigned to dealing with outstanding ARAP applications as of 16 June 2022; how many ARAP applications were closed due to the applicant (a) being killed...
James Heappey: The Home Office has been responsible for the resettlement of ARAP-eligible Afghans to the UK since the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP) scheme began. The Afghan Citizen's Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) is a separate scheme and is a Home Office lead. The delivery of Afghan relocation and resettlement under ARAP is a cross-HMG priority with several Departments playing a key role. The...
