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<p>The UK has made an ambitious and generous commitment to help at-risk people in
Afghanistan and, so far, we have brought around 24,600 people to safety, including
thousands of people eligible for our Afghan schemes. We continue to honour our commitments
to bring eligible Afghans to the UK.</p><p>As of 31 August 2023, we successfully ended
the use of bridging hotels for legally resettled Afghans, with the overwhelming majority
of those being resettled now having moved into settled accommodation. We have now
provided these Afghans with the homes they need to begin the next chapter of their
life in the UK, fully integrate, find employment and provide their children with stability.</p><p>Whilst
we cannot confirm the longest length of stay in bridging accommodation, our statistics
show that the earliest record of an Afghan in bridging accommodation was in the second
quarter of 2021.</p><p>The Home Office publish data on Afghan resettlement in the
Immigration System Statistics release. In table Asy_D02 of the asylum and resettlement
detailed datasets, you can view the number of Afghans resettled, by when they arrived
in the UK (quarterly breakdowns) and what type of accommodation they were recorded
in as of the date of the data extraction (currently the data is as of 30 September
2023). The next Immigration Statistics are due for release around 22 February 2024.</p>
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