Desperate Afghans in America are trying everything to get family members out of the country, where many have gone into hiding amid threats from the Taliban: “Their only hope is on me to get them out and I can’t.”
Suneeta, an Afghan immigrant living in Albany, N.Y., has been trying to reunite with her four children, now ages 7 to 17, who are on their own in the Kabul area.
The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, with fighters entering the presidential palace, and gunshots broke out at Kabul’s airport as thousands tried to flee the country. The collapse of the Afghan government creates an uncertain future for civilians and challenges for the U.S. Photo: Wakil Kohsar/AFP
Bashi Ghazialam, an Afghan-American and immigration attorney in San Diego, said none of the Afghans he is helping obtain visas were allowed on flights out of Kabul on Sunday.He blamed the U.S. Embassy for having left so many Afghans behind. He said the embassy has a backlog of applications and described the application process as disorganized and lacking the proper staffing to adjudicate cases.
The woman’s father, mother and six siblings moved to the U.S. in 2016 and settled in Walnut Creek, Calif., after her father was approved for a Special Immigration Visa. Her father, Mohammad Daud Intezar, worked as a driver for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Afghanistan and had received death threats for doing his job.
Suneeta’s husband worked with the U.S. military as an interpreter and team leader with the security forces at Camp Eggers. He disappeared in 2013 and is presumed dead. His disappearance makes his children ineligible for a Special Immigrant Visa, which would have required him to be the primary applicant. Suneeta became separated from her children in 2014, when her brother-in-law took them without permission to her husband’s family, shortly before she received legal authority to move to the U.S.
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