American returns to Afghanistan to save wife, escapes 2 months after US forces left

Prince Wafa, a naturalized U.S. citizen who worked for the military mission in his native Afghanistan, returned over the summer to help his wife out of the country.

For 19 days, a naturalized American citizen born in Afghanistan, who served the U.S. mission there for four years, has been waiting at a military base in Qatar, eager to make it back to the American Dream he built for himself and his wife.

But he acknowledges it's better than being back in Kabul, where he was stuck for more than 50 days following the withdrawal of U.S. forces, while Taliban fighters patrol the streets, looking for blue U.S. passports like his.

"How can you leave a U.S. citizen with the background that I have, that can be hunted at any time? How can you leave them there?" Prince Wafa, 30, told ABC News in a recent phone call, expressing frustration at the Biden administration.

"I expect more from my government," Wafa said, taking aim at the State Department and the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). "Some people are basically destroying the entire face of the organization. And because they are the people we see, we think everybody is like that," he said.