Special Immigrant Visa (SIV)
In 2009, Congress established the Special Immigrant Visa program for
Afghans and Iraqis who had worked for the U.S. military and U.S.
government agencies. The Department of State has done a poor job of
implementing the SIV program through four administrations.
Publications about Afghan SIV Program
Department of State - Office of Inspector General, Evaluation of
Adjustments to the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa Program from 2018
through 2022, August 2023, PDF, 52 pages.
https://www.stateoig.gov/report/aud-mero-23-23
Department of State, "DoS IG Report - Follow-Up Reveiw of
Afghan SIV Program", Afghan Report, October 20, 2022.
https://afghan-report.com/publications/dos-ig-report-oct-2022/
Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Standing Up for Our Afghan Allies: The
History, Challenges and Future of the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa
Program, Senate.gov, September 2022, PDF, 40 pages. Read the
report here.
Coburn, Noah, "The Costs of Working with the Americans in
Afghanistan: The United States' Broken Special Immigrant Visa Process",
Watson Institute, Brown University, April 5, 2021, PDF, 20 pages. Read
the
report here.
DoS IG, Review of the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa Program,
Office of Inspector General, United States Department of State,
AUD-MERO-20-35, June 2020, PDF, 44 pages.
https://www.oversight.gov/sites/default/files/oig-reports/AUD-MERO-20-35.pdf
News Reports about the SIV Program
August 31, 2021.
"How Trump broke the system that offers protection to Afghan allies",
The Hill. A former senior official in the State Department refugee
bureau during the Trump administration describes how the SIV process
could have been fixed and how the Trump administration sabotaged it.
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