About 8,500 people who left Afghanistan recently were Afghans, according to numbers released by the Biden admin. and estimates from advocates. It's a small percentage of Afghans who worked for the U.S. or U.S. organizations and applied for special visas.
That is a small percentage of the tens of thousands of Afghans who worked for the U.S. government or U.S. organizations and applied for special U.S. visas, and an even smaller percentage of the Afghans eligible to apply.over the past month and the Taliban rolled into Kabul, the Biden administration said the evacuation effort would place a priority on flying out American citizens and Afghan"partners" who applied for what are known as Special Immigrant Visas .
It’s unclear whether all of those evacuees were in the SIV program. U.S. officials have yet to offer an overall estimate of the number of Afghans in the program who were evacuated to the U.S. or to third countries, making it difficult to pin down exactly who made it out of Kabul in the frantic closing days of the U.S. military presence.
In addition to the 70,000 or more Afghans who were approved for SIVs or had pending applications, another pool of Afghans and their families — perhaps an additional 50,000 people — were eligible for the program because of work with the U.S. government but did not apply or were rejected for unknown reasons, according to an estimate from the Association of Wartime Allies, which works with Afghan allies.That number covers Afghans who were employed by the U.S.
The research was overseen by a professional demographer and faculty at American University, said a member of the AWA's advisory board. "The numbers speak for themselves," said Chris Purdy of Human Rights First, who along with other advocates had urged the administration to launch an evacuation months earlier.
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