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2021-09-17 Afghanistan

US Advises Stranded Green Card Holders to Leave Afghanistan to go to US Embassy in Neighboring Countries

[NationalReview] "I explained his situation — a U.S. legal permanent resident since 2017, and his wife and kids’ visa interview interrupted by closing of Kabul embassy," my reader said. "Her first response was to read to me, verbatim, the text of the auto-reply emails that we have been receiving. ’The U.S. embassy in Kabul is closed, blah, blah, blah...’ I let her do that on the off chance that there might be new information. There wasn’t."

When the woman on the hotline had finished repeating the old, and not terribly helpful information, my reader asked: "How do we get him and his family out of Afghanistan?"

My reader says the State Department hotline operator’s advice was to leave Afghanistan, contact any of the neighboring country U.S. embassies, travel to that embassy, finish the interview process, get the visas, and then buy tickets and fly to the United States.

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-09-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top
File under: Taliban/IEA

#1 In short "You're on your own".
And, a few weeks down the road, $$$ to Taliban will be justified as "saving lives".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-09-17 01:20|| 2021-09-17 01:20|| Front Page Top

#2 So much for the "shelter and remain in place" instructions.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-09-17 04:09|| 2021-09-17 04:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Meanwhile, the Taliban control the roads and borders.

Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2021-09-17 06:00|| 2021-09-17 06:00|| Front Page Top

#4 California GOP Rep. reveals two elderly Californians have ESCAPED Afghanistan after weeks of being ‘harassed and intimidated’ by Taliban who blocked them from entering Kabul Airport

Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-17 07:38|| 2021-09-17 07:38|| Front Page Top

#5 State Department advice: You can't get here from there.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-17 08:11|| 2021-09-17 08:11|| Front Page Top

#6 OTOH, I'd imagine the smugglers are enjoying a healthy market in exfiltrating people who can afford to buy their way out.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-17 08:12|| 2021-09-17 08:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Right. If 8,000 Hatians can cross into Texas, surely those folks can get home! [/sarc]

Posted by Bobby 2021-09-17 12:32|| 2021-09-17 12:32|| Front Page Top

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