Lawmakers are calling on Trump admin. officials to explain why they have refused so far to grant a visa to an Afghan interpreter who they say has faced death threats and an assassination attempt from the Taliban.
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are calling on Trump administration officials to explain why they have refused so far to grant a visa towho they say has faced death threats and an assassination attempt from the Taliban.
The Department of Homeland Security also has failed to provide Congress with a briefing on the case despite a promise from former Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen at a congressional hearing in December 2018, the letter stated. While U.S. authorities have so far declined to grant the 35-year-old Kamran a visa, one of his brothers — who also worked as an interpreter for the U.S. military — has been living in the United States for years, as has his sister, according to Kristy Perano, an American graduate student who has championed Kamran's case. Kamran first applied for a U.S. visa in 2014.
Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland, said Kamran's case is part of a much wider problem involving thousands of interpreters who served alongside Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq who are struggling to secure visas to the United States.
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