Not only sensitive material but also many passports of Afghans who are now trying to leave the country after the takeover of the Taliban. Last week in the offices ofUS Embassy in Kabul the documents of many people who had requested the seen for the USA. And at the moment they lack identification tools with the result that they will now have to wait until further order before they can leave, if that is possible. The State Department he suggested to all people waiting for documents to take cover and wait for instructions, advising against going to the airport until further notice.
According to @AndyKimNJ’s congressional office, Afghan passports that were submitted to the US embassy for visa processing have been destroyed. (Remember all that sensitive document burning? H/t to @kgilsinan for the info) pic.twitter.com/KneVItxVVb
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) August 17, 2021
“Appointments for visas and passports at the embassy have been canceled,” explained the New Jersey congressman Andy Kim -. The passports that were in the possession of the embassy were destroyed. At the moment it is not possible to provide visa services in Afghanistan ”. Another congressman from New Jersey, Tom Malinowski, at the Cnn called on the American authorities to find other solutions to identify Afghans whose passports have been destroyed, stressing that one could start from phone numbers in the archive. “In many cases – he explained – we have their information and their telephone numbers and from here we can proceed with their identification. In any case, any Afghan trying to reach the airport is better off without an identification document (for security reasons, ed) ”. New Jersey is also home to one of the refugee reception agencies and is preparing for the eventual arrival of Afghans.
Meanwhile, the UK Ministry of Defense Ben Wallace he said that all Afghans who have worked for the British government and who seek political asylum will be able to enter Britain even without a passport.
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