US increases Afghan special immigrant visas
Congress has approved an additional 12,000 Special Immigrant Visas for nationals of Afghanistan who helped the US during its two-decades-long war there.
But advocates say more visas are needed, noting that the current number falls short by 20,000 through this program.
Called Operation Allies Welcome, it offers these Afghans a path to permanent residency and citizenship in the United States.
Approximately 88,000 Afghan nationals arrived in the U.S. after the war and have resettled in communities across the country through the program.
The U.S. and its allies left Afghanistan in August 2021.
This was after close to 20 years of war against the Taliban there.
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