Congress grapples with the Special Immigrant Visa program's shortcomings.
. The stay of execution has offered some sense of relief to many of the more than 147,000 Afghans awaiting processing.
The value of Nasib’s service is best demonstrated through letters of recommendation from eight high-ranking Special Forces personnel he worked alongside. Letters from mid-2005 recalled Nasib as a self-motivated, skilled young interpreter. A year later in 2006, a captain described how Nasib “never hesitated to return fire, assist his vehicle crew, carry a wounded soldier, or … provide additional firepower utilizing American weaponry.
With the help of his Green Beret supporters, Nasib has applied multiple times for chief of mission approval, the first step in the SIV process. Each application has been denied. The government insists that Nasib lacks proof that he completed the program’s requisite year of faithful and valuable service to the U.S. government. Testimonies of American service members from four ODAs who verify Nasib worked for them directly for two years and 11 months are not sufficient.
In Nasib’s most recent COM denial from December 2023, the State Department asserted that a Mission Essential Personnel rehiring process, which Nasib said was initiated per the company’s request in 2018, was “terminated due to security reasons.” Theprovided no further details. Mission Essential Personnel said it was “unable to comment on employment specifics without the former linguist’s permission.
Because of their support of American personnel, NMRG personnel who remain in Afghanistan face a particular threat. Though the Taliban promised amnesty to their former enemies on taking over Afghanistan, reprisal campaigns soon began to target former Afghan government and military personnel, as well as U.S. allies.
Leyva immediately began reaching out to the State Department for an explanation. “All I get back is the blanket response: We cannot provide any additional information.”
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