Considerations stay over the variety of Afghan visas but to be processed by Australia a 12 months on from the autumn of the capital Kabul to the Taliban.

The federal authorities is different visa pathways however Immigration Minister Andrew Giles has stopped in need of saying it should elevate the humanitarian visa cap of 31,500 for Afghans.

Greater than 40,000 purposes protecting over 211,000 folks have been lodged.

However solely round 6000 everlasting visas have been granted in whole, Mr Giles says. 

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“My first focus is on making certain we meet this obligation, we discover locations and security for 31,500 folks to rebuild their lives,” he informed the ABC when requested about lifting the cap.

“The federal government is exploring numerous different visa pathways for folks from Afghanistan.”

This consists of growing the humanitarian consumption extra broadly and increasing neighborhood sponsorship of refugees by 5000 extra locations, Mr Giles says.

“We’re dedicated over time to elevating the general humanitarian consumption … ,” he mentioned.

“However my focus proper now could be on making certain we fill these locations.”

Further assets have since been directed to assist course of the backlog however no timeframe has been placed on clearing the purposes.

“The demand has been completely overwhelming … and each one in all these purposes must be appropriately registered to allow them to be handled correctly,” Mr Giles mentioned.

“The backlog is being progressed fairly shortly. I’m decided that whereas the dimensions of that is overwhelming, we’re not overwhelmed by our response to it.

“We have now placed on extra workers to cope with the backlog and extra workers to cope with points that relate to household reunion, affecting folks from Afghanistan as nicely.”

Regardless of the inundation of purposes a 12 months on from the Taliban capturing Kabul, Mr Giles says he doesn’t lay blame on the ft of the previous authorities.

“I don’t know if it’s honest to say to the previous authorities we knew the variety of folks that had been going to be making use of. The circumstances that occurred a few 12 months in the past occur very, in a short time,” he informed AAP.

“The quantity of demand is extraordinary and I feel it’s honest to say was unprecedented. 

“Every of those people lined by the purposes must be correctly registered and that takes time as a result of we’re prioritising regionally engaged staff, girls and women and members of minority teams.”