Hundreds of Afghan experts who fled their home country following the US-led troop withdrawal and Taliban occupation in August 2021 are enduring long waits for US visas, the Associated Press reports.
Despite the delay in their “promised U.S. visas” “due to prolonged bureaucracy,” they expressed “emotional grief” while reconciling “concerns and fears for their families back home” with hopes for a new life. I live in a roller coaster. Associated Press report clearly.
Firuz Mashuf, 35, is a photojournalist and former Afghan Football Federation employee who now works in a shopping mall and lives in temporary housing in Shenjin, Albania. According to the report, he often takes long walks by the beach to “avoid panic attacks of being forgotten” or “crazy fear” for his family in western Herat province. It says. “I have been saved and am about to start a new life in America. But when?” he asked, according to the report. He is one of more than 3,200 Afghans displaced to Albania, the report added. Albania is reportedly one of the European countries with which the US government has discussed the temporary detention of Afghans who are at risk of working for the US government. Reuters. (Related: Biden administration review accuses President Trump of ‘challenge’ to pull out of Afghanistan)
Afghan journalist Elias Nawandish and his wife, Latifah Flotan, chat at a bar outside a tourist resort in the coastal city of Moritsu on September 11, 2021. Photo credit: GENT SHKULLAKU/AFP via Getty Images.
TV news reporter and former Afghan volleyball player Farishta Ustvar, 23, moved to Albania in 2021. She worked “first in a hotel, then in a shoe factory, and finally in a daycare,” according to the Associated Press. . Reportedly, she said she “needs to feel like she can live a normal life” as she worries about her family in Herat.
According to one report, the US-led invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, which ended in August 2021 after lasting almost two decades, cost more than $2 trillion. white house report.
More than 100,000 U.S. allied Afghans are already in the United States as part of the initial “Allied Welcome Operation” and the ongoing “Permanent Welcome Operation,” according to a White House report. But another Associated Press reported that Congress’ efforts to permanently resolve their immigration status have stalled. report. The White House called for “congressional action on bills such as the Afghanistan Adjustment Act to help those joining new communities successfully settle and integrate,” according to a White House report.
