The Biden administration is intensifying its efforts to evacuate at-risk Afghan citizens from Afghanistan, citing increased levels of Taliban violence.
The State Department said on Aug. 2 that it’s expanding the scope of Afghans eligible for refugee status in the United States “to many thousands of Afghans and their immediate family members who may be at risk due to their U.S. affiliation,” but who are ineligible for a special immigrant visa (SIV) because they didn’t work directly for the U.S. government or didn’t hold their government jobs long enough.
