![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now Sanaullah is is trying to secure a visa to Pakistan. Visa interviews take place in neighboring Pakistan because the U.S. visa interview has been scheduled for next month at the U.S. Sanaullah's SIV application was completed - meaning all the documents were accepted and his application was approved - three months ago. He's not hiding in his own hometown because too many people there know that he worked with U.S. The longer it takes, my life is at higher risk," says Sanaullah. It is not just former military interpreters like Sanaullah who are at risk - activists, journalists, former employees of the previous government and armed forces are all subject to being jailed, beaten and disappeared. A State Department spokesperson tells NPR that between July 2021 and July 2022, 15,000 SIVs have been issued to principal applicants and eligible family members. Sanaullah, 23, is one of more than 74,000 applicants stuck in the backlog of the Special Immigrant Visa program, which was designed to help those who served the U.S. In the year following the Taliban takeover, tens of thousands of Afghans hoping - and in many cases, needing - to leave for the U.S. Thousands of Afghan applicants for Special Immigrant Visas are still awaiting decisions He is in hiding after his house was raided by the Taliban four times over the past year. I never thought that something like that could happen." I can't understand why, I don't understand this disconnected process," he says. "I know other people - just business owners - who got evacuated, but. ![]()
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