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

, sharing Wafa's frustration while praising the "tenacity" of the man he served alongside.

Wafa would wait another three weeks -- full of anguish and uncertainty -- to get called to another flight. In that time, he wrote President Joe Biden a direct plea. He also resorted to desperate measures, including, he says, paying $3,500 for a visa for his wife to go to Pakistan off the black market.

"We will continue to facilitate these departures because, as the Secretary has said, there is no deadline on this effort," they said.Ultimately, Wafa praised his local House Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., for helping secure his departure last Friday on the thirteenth chartered"I'm thinking without him, it wouldn't be possible for me to be here, because there's a lot of Americans still sitting there," he told ABC News on a phone call from a military base in Doha.

"While most people have gone through a sort of simplified parole screening and vetting process, she's trying to get her visa before she arrives in the U.S. and not go through the parole pathway," Danilo Zak, a senior policy and advocacy associate at the National Immigration Forum, told ABC News. "There are different security and vetting requirements, so it's quite possible that it's going to take longer because they're in a bit of a unique situation.

His wife told ABC News in a message, translated into English, that it "means a lot" that he came to ensure her safety but that going to America is both "happy and sad," for her.

It is what it is. He's wife is not a naturalized citizen and he doesn't want to leave her, that's on them. If you have a passport and you waited to the last minute and then did not leave..........that's on them, no matter the circumstance.

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