The rapid exit from Afghanistan a year ago left many people in danger under Taliban rule. Among them are interpreters. “There is no future for these people in Afghanistan,” said the senior advisor to the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.
Despite promises by the Biden administration, relatives and colleagues of an aid worker killed in a U.S. drone strike remain stuck in Afghanistan.president of Parks Global Solutions, a labor and logistics subcontractor, said he had no choice but to fire H.S. after his failed security screening. Parks said he has never been given the reasoning behind any counterintelligence decision.
Abdul Wahid Forozan, a former interpreter for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, speaks at a rally near the White House in July 2021. With him are Chris Purdy of Human Rights First, left, and Jill Marie Bussey of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. “Therefore, applicants who have been terminated from their employment typically do not qualify as having provided faithful and valuable service,” the document states.
Abdul Nasrat “Lucky” Sultani’s application for a special immigrant visa was denied the first time he submitted it. He and his family left Afghanistan in August 2021. Abdul Nasrat “Lucky” Sultani eats dinner with, from right, wife Sohila Samadi and his sisters Khurshid, 23, and Tajala, 19, in Sacramento. U.S. forces in Afghanistan nicknamed him Lucky for surviving multiple insurgent attacks.
Before leaving Afghanistan, Sultani said he volunteered with the U.S. government to evacuate more than 160 other vulnerable families. He said the Taliban sent threatening letters and visited his family’s home, warning that “soon it will be our turn.”
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