Special immigrant visa applicants who supported the U.S. government in Afghanistan face more than a five-year wait to find safety amid Taliban efforts to find and kill former enemies.
spokesperson told Fox News Digital."The number of applicants DoD is able to verify depends on the willingness of companies to provide information on their former employees and the fidelity of that data, but generally the DoD team is currently able to process 200 candidates a week on average.
"The Department of State and DoD have multiple processes in place to verify statutory employment and supervisory requirement are met. DoD’s primary role is to engage companies that employed certain applicants and obtain employment information when applicants are unable to contact their former employer or supervisor, which is a smaller subset of the total SIV applicant pool.
The State Department is bound by a legal mandate, reinforced by an IRAP class-action complaint from 2018, to process SIV applications in nine months. The State Department currently seeks to comply with this mandate by demonstrating that all government-controlled aspects of theTaliban fighters celebrate the first anniversary of the withdrawal of U.S.-led troops from Afghanistan at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 31, 2022.
In February, Sayyid’s close friend, an author and activist, was murdered by the Taliban. In the same week, the State Department’s Coordinator for Afghan Relocation Efforts team informed Sayyid he was eligible for a flight to safety. First, he needed to submit his children’s passports, which took another six months to arrive. Two weeks ago, Sayyid forwarded the passports to CARE. Now, he faces a new roadblock after formal transportation operations were reduced in mid-June.
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