NEW: Afghan evacuees have arrived at Heathrow in past 48 hours with forged papers & with no documentation, a border officer on ground told @Telegraph.
Home Sec Priti Patel insisted security checks were 'vigorous' & 'digital identities' of all Afghans without docs were assured.
Home Sec Priti Patel insisted security checks were 'vigorous' & 'digital identities' of all Afghans without docs were assured.
Ian Denison, Border Force assistant director, said some Afghans 'tell us they’ve lost the documents they had...
'We're not going to have an argument with the ppl that have been through the process they’ve been through... You see people with their life belongings in plastic bags'
'We're not going to have an argument with the ppl that have been through the process they’ve been through... You see people with their life belongings in plastic bags'
He set out the security checks all arriving Afghans evacuees are obliged to go through, in a process that takes up to 4.5 hours.
This involves screening & checks by Border Force, Counter-Terror Command, and military intelligence.
This involves screening & checks by Border Force, Counter-Terror Command, and military intelligence.
Home Sec said: 'We have done the checks out of country before they've come here, so they have digital status...
'So they may not have documentation, but they would have had that digital identity… [In UK] They are going through step-by-step identity, security, biometric checks'
'So they may not have documentation, but they would have had that digital identity… [In UK] They are going through step-by-step identity, security, biometric checks'
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