Kabul embassy's Gurkha guards face removal from UK

A radical of Nepalese information guards who were rescued from the autumn of Kabul successful 2021 are facing removal from the UK, 19 months later.

The 13 Nepalese subject veterans - known arsenic Gurkhas - were employed guarding the UK embassy successful Kabul.

Their lawyers accidental their ineligible close to stay successful the UK since their rescue has been "voided" by the Home Office.

A Home Office spokesperson denied anyone with a imperishable close to unrecorded successful the UK had had it removed.

The men, who are Nepalese and Indian nationals aged betwixt 37 and 60, were moving for a backstage information steadfast that guarded the compound lodging the UK and Canadian embassies successful Kabul.

Thousands of Afghans who had served alongside British subject and authorities unit were evacuated from Kabul amid chaotic scenes.

A lawyer for immoderate of the information guards said 10 of them were detained successful handcuffs successful an aboriginal greeting raid connected their westbound London edifice past week.

They had been surviving successful the edifice and moving successful its kitchen, serving nutrient to different Afghan evacuees.

They've since been held successful migration removal centres adjacent to Gatwick and Heathrow airports.

Removal directions for the radical are scheduled to statesman connected Thursday 6 April.

Bam Gurung, 37, who worked for 10 years arsenic an embassy information guard, told the BBC helium had hoped to commencement a caller beingness successful the UK and service successful the Army.

He said: "We are very, precise saddened. [For] 2 days I person cried with my friend, I outcry with my mum.

"I would person made bully beingness successful the UK and I would person contributed to the UK government."

The BBC has been shown biometric residence permits for 2 of the men stating that they person indefinite permission to stay successful the UK.

This migration presumption allows holders a life-long close to live, enactment and assertion benefits.

Jamie Bell, of Duncan Lewis Solicitors, said: "All were evacuated connected the aforesaid formation and each of their claims were processed together. It is wholly unclear arsenic to wherefore determination has been a quality successful attraction betwixt them.

"We person received nary clarity from the Home Office arsenic to wherefore having evacuated these brave men, they are present being treated successful an inhumane and cruel way."

Mr Bell said the migration presumption of 5 of the men appeared to person been settled until the astonishment raid.

Eight others had been told they were ineligible for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) presumption aft the Home Office applied connected their behalf pursuing the Kabul rescue.

A spokesperson for the Home Office said: "We stay committed to providing extortion for susceptible and at-risk radical fleeing Afghanistan and truthful acold person brought astir 24,500 radical impacted by the concern backmost to the UK.

"In this instance, determination has been nary alteration to the migration presumption of individuals who person been granted Indefinite Leave to Remain and it would beryllium incorrect to suggest this has been removed."