More than 150 interpreters face eviction back to Afghanistan unless they pay Home Office £2,400
MORE than 150 Afghan translators face being deported from Britain if they don't pay £2,400, in a fresh immigration scandal for ministers.
Score of interpreters who risked life and limb for UK troops may be booted out as early as next year.
The Home Office has been unable to confirm they will be able to stay when their five year visas expire, according to Mail Online.
They will have to find £2,400 to reapply for sanctuary – which many say they cannot afford.
They all served in Helmand Province for more than a year – but some have already been told it's too late to bring their families over.
It could mean they are sent back to face the Taliban who could be hunt them down for being spies.
Mail Online claims to have seen a letter to Home Secretary Sajid Javid and Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson asking for a reprieve.
It says: "We took great risk because we believed in the integrity of the British Army, only to be let down by politicians who see us a number and not as people.
"We implore you to end your shameful and indefensible policy."
Hundreds of interpreters had been allowed into the UK, along with their families, in a relocation scheme.
But their five-year permits are due to expire, despite the MoD admitting we owe them a "debt of gratitude".
The Government said last night that it wanted to reassure the interpreters they can expect to stay.
Wwe have previously reported how a translator, called Ricky, has been refused sanctuary in Britain despite his battlefield heroics.
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