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Daily Mail
November 24, 2013
Up to 600 Afghans who have risked their lives to act as interpreters for British troops and officials are to be handed council homes when they move to Britain.
The Government has made a nationwide appeal to local authorities in a bid to find council homes for the men and their families as part of a £40million deal.
Interpreters who have regularly served on the front line will get visas for themselves and their ‘immediate dependents’ to come to Britain for a period of five years, along with free travel.
In Peterborough, Cambs, city council leader Marco Cereste said: ‘I think this is absolutely something the city should do.
‘These people have been in the front line taking bullets with our troops and if we don’t help them they and their families could be killed.’
The visas will be offered to around half of the 1,200 interpreters who are currently employed by the Armed Forces and the Foreign Office.
Those eligible will have had to serve for at least 12 months ‘outside the wire’ of security compounds in Helmand province where British troops have been fighting the Taliban.
Those who do not qualify for emigration to the UK will be offered the choice of 18 months’ pay as or money for training and education for up to five years if they want to learn a skill or take an IT course.
Interpreters who are no longer employed by Britain will not get a redundancy package but if they feel their lives are in danger they can report threats under the UK’s intimidation policy, which offers relocation to Britain in ‘extreme cases’.
The package has been drawn up in Downing Street following warnings that the Taliban could execute interpreters once Western combat forces leave the country by the end of next year.
