Austin has played a noteworthy role in resettling Afghans. Refugee Services of Texas' Austin office resettled 964 Afghans from October 2021 through September 2022.
As the Taliban advanced throughout Afghanistan in the summer of 2021,had more pressing concerns. A bout of COVID-19 had swept through his family's 12-member household. It took a toll on his father, who grew progressively ill from the virus and passed away in June 2021."He died in my arms," Osian said., was a supreme court judge in Afghanistan, meaning he had made many enemies among the Taliban.
When asked how he and his family got to Austin, Osian pulled out his phone, scanning a series of dates on his calendar. On August 25, 2021, 10 days after the Taliban seized control of Kabul, his family left the country."It was hard to get into the airport," he said. A contact instructed him to go to the airport's gate. When the family arrived, they spotted a group of Taliban guarding the gate. They could maybe evade them, but his mother was in a wheelchair.
Most Afghans who evacuated following the Taliban takeover have a parole status, which typically comes with a work permit good for two years. For more permanent status, they can apply for special immigrant visas – largely for those who worked for the U.S. government in Afghanistan – or asylum. Painter noted that the asylum process has been uncharacteristically fast for the Afghan population.
But asylum seekers still in Afghanistan are often relying on grants of humanitarian parole, which have always been much harder to get, and the situation has gotten worse, Painter said. An investigation by Reveal found that one year after the evacuation, USCIS had only processed 8,000 of the 66,000 humanitarian parole applications it had received. And of those processed, only 123 had been approved.
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