The Home Office has lost track of around 700 Afghans it evacuated to the UK, sparking fears that some could be wrongly deported in a repeat of the Windrush scandal.
A newly released report by the former borders and immigration inspector, David Neal, has revealed that “the Home Office does not have a single accurate dataset” of Afghans it has resettled in the UK.
The department pledged to improve its data management after the 2018 Windrush scandal, when it emerged that hundreds of Commonwealth migrants had been denied their legal rights – with many wrongly deported – because the Home Office failed to record that they had permission to stay in the UK.
