Afghan asylum seekers who fled the Taliban have been returning home "to go on holiday", it has been claimed.
The Government has spent billions on a scheme to protect asylum seekers from persecution in their home country, after they supported British troops deployed there.
However, it has been alleged that asylum seekers have been travelling from the UK back to Afghanistan, with the threats they claim in the country having been exaggerated.
The revelations have been blasted as proof Britain's "generosity has been taken advantage of", with critics telling GB News there is an urgent need for change to the UK's asylum policy.
A former interpreter, who served with British forces in Afghanistan before starting a new life in the UK, claimed that the Afghanistan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) had been exploited by Afghans.
The allegations were made after a data breach involving details of over 18,000 soldiers and some of their family members involved in Afghanistan, after a super-injunction was lifted.
One Afghan migrant, who has been living in a Home Office hotel in the Midlands, said: "You don't leave before getting your asylum case accepted because first it is risky and second the British Government will be holding your passport during the process of your application."
The migrants instead obtain Iranian visas "very easily" and travel to the Afghan border and cross without having Afghan stamps on their passports.
They bribe Iranian and Taliban border forces thorugh prior contacts to avoid passports stamps that would "put them in trouble".
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The Afghans have been going back to their homeland on holiday after claiming asylum
| PAA Taliban official told The Telegraph that it is not their issue and is up to the Government "to solve their problems".
One migrant said: "My husband is insisting we should go and visit because it's been over two years since we saw our families last time.
"But I tell him we have a safe and happy life here, and why should we put our status in danger."
She explained that a relative of hers has returned to Afghanistan with his family, despite being evacuated to the UK two years ago.
She said: "They went there a few months ago, spent 20 days in Herat and came back without having a problem because British authorities think they were in Iran, not Afghanistan.
"There are a lot of people who are living in the hotels going in and out of Afghanistan daily; they just keep a low profile while in the country."
Dr Alan Mendoza, executive director of the foreign policy and national security think tank The Henry Jackson Society, told GB News: "It's obviously nonsensical that anyone claiming asylum because they fear persecution in a country would return to that country for a holiday.
"We took Afghans in rightly because of our involvement in that country and our fears that the Taliban would exact revenge on innocent people.
Scenes in 2021 showed thousands of Afghans trying to flee the country after the Taliban took back power | GB NEWS"Instead, our generosity has been taken advantage of - as it so often has been under our current asylum system - and this simply highlights the urgent need to change policy to one that will henceforth reject migrants who come here out of choice."
The asylum seekers have allegedly also "staged torture videos" in order to be able to relocate to the UK.
The former interpreter said that "the only threat is unemployment" for them.
Aghans, who had already been granted asylum in other safe countries such as Belgium, were still granted asylum in the UK.
GB News has approached the Ministry of Defence for comment.