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Biden’s plan to rescue Afghan allies is failing due to State Department backlog: ‘325,000 unopened emails’
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The State Department's visa program aimed at getting Afghan allies to America faces a large backlog of applicants, some of whom are still waiting for their emails to be opened.
But a report from the State Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) says Afghans who are trying to apply for the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) that would get them to the U.S. are still stuck in bureaucratic red tape. The State Department is so far behind that hundreds of thousands of emails have not even been opened yet, according to the report. Pete Kasperowicz is a politics editor at Fox News Digital.
"By May 2022, there was a backlog of 61,888 principal Afghan SIV applicants in process with an additional 325,000 unopened emails in the SIV application email inbox," the report said. It added that in May of this year, staff were "still opening unread emails dated from August 2021."
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