Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

[by video link] As I said in response to the primary question, our officials on the ground—DFAT officials working alongside Home Affairs officials who issue and process the visas—are not only doing their utmost to ensure that anybody who has any type of Australian visa is able to board and depart Kabul; they are also responding very clearly to other individuals who have connections to Australia and reasons to want to seek claim, and they are working as quickly as they can to find appropriate humanitarian visas that can be issued in emergency circumstances to be able to expedite those people's departure from Kabul. We've indeed seen 950 people uplifted overnight.