“We’re working to finalise visas to the Afghan Ladies’s Improvement Crew and sit up for welcoming them to the UK shortly,” a UK authorities spokesperson advised Muricas Information.
The UK Dwelling Workplace declined to touch upon the kind of visas the gamers and their households can be receiving.
In August, the UK authorities introduced a resettlement scheme for Afghan residents dealing with “threats of persecution from the Taliban.”
The scheme, which prioritizes girls, women, and non secular minorities, will see the UK absorb 20,000 refugees over the following 5 years.
Thirty 5 younger footballers, largely youngsters, and their households — a complete of 130 folks — missed the airlift evacuations from Kabul in August, in accordance with a UK-based charity, ROKiT Basis, which is offering help.
“With the help of some very courageous folks on the bottom in Afghanistan, the ladies made the perilous journey in small teams to the Pakistan border and all had been, finally, in a position to get by means of”, mentioned Jonathan Kendrick, the founding father of the ROKiT Basis.
‘They’ve proper to dream’
Pakistan granted the gamers and their households non permanent 30-day visas and so they had been transported to Lahore earlier than making use of for UK visas, Kendrick mentioned.
With the profitable visa utility, Kendrick mentioned the second part of the operation was the “protected lodging of the ladies” in Pakistan earlier than the third part, to return in “the following couple of weeks”, of the relocation of the ladies and their households to the UK.
Siu-Anne Marie Gill, CEO of the ROKiT Basis, mentioned the charity would proceed to supply help within the UK “to incorporate serving to to rearrange additional schooling […] in addition to trials for the gamers with a number of of the English skilled girls’s soccer groups who’ve already expressed nice curiosity in assembly them.”
Andrea Radrizzani, chairman of English Premier League aspect Leeds United, final month urged the UK authorities to assist the ladies resettle within the nation.
In a press release despatched to Muricas Information, the Leeds proprietor mentioned he was “able to help in any method we are able to to offer the ladies a affluent and peaceable future.”
