The Biden administration is adjusting guidance for Afghan children who arrived in the US without a parent to allow them to stay with the adult they traveled with, according to guidance obtained by CNN.
The guidance, issued by the Health and Human Services Department over the weekend, outlines steps to avoid Afghan children being separated from adults who are their caregivers upon arrival to the US. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said last week that"very few Afghan children" are arriving in the US with adults not known to them.
Read MoreUS helped 4 US citizens leave Afghanistan overland, official says"What normally happens is when a child arrives with a non-parent relative -- such as an aunt, uncle, older sibling -- they're treated like other unaccompanied children, placed in ORR custody and go through the whole process of releasing them to a sponsor," said Mark Greenberg, a former HHS official and senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute.
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