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General Category => World News => Topic started by: EC on May 22, 2013, 08:28:10 am

Title: Afghan interpreters to get right to live in UK
Post by: EC on May 22, 2013, 08:28:10 am

Via the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22620207

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Up to 600 Afghan interpreters who worked alongside British troops are to be given the right to live in the UK, government sources have confirmed.

The plan marks a climbdown from ministers who had decided they should not get the same UK resettlement rights as interpreters in the Iraq conflict.

Afghan interpreters who worked on the front line for a year or more will initially be offered a five-year visa.

More at link.

Personal opinion - About bloody time. We pay our debts.