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Welcome afghans to the united states. let me just start with a question about visa status. senator sullivan and i wrote a bipartisan letter in mid-august urging expanded eligibility for the siv program. im interested if how you are working to expand eligibility under the existing visa programs to include family members and support those the u.s. government supported and worked alongside but who were not direct employees? i want to start if i could, mr. secretary by asking you yes or no questions...

Applicants. there had not been a single si virks interview since march of 2020. on february 4th, one of the first executive orders issued by president biden directed us to immediately review the siv program to identify causes of undo delay and find ways to process siv applications more quickly. this spring, i directed significant additional resources to the program. expanding the team of people in washington processing applications from ten to 50. doubling the number of siv adjudicators. even as...

About visa status. senator sullivan and i wrote a letter in mid-august urging expanded eligibility for the siv program. im interested in how youre working to expand eligiblibility under the existing visa programs to include family members and to support those the u.s. government supported and worked alongside but who we were not direct employees. i want to start if i could mr. secretary by asking question yes or no answers. there was voice of america, radio for liberty who were not evacuated. if...

Hearings, im convinced now more than ever is that we need a 9/11 still commission. theres too much to investigate. if you think about the numbers in congress, its ten. five in each chamber. the armed services committees, foreign affair, foreign relations pertaining to which ever chamber youre talking about. the homeland security committees. the intelligence committees and the believe it or not, judiciary committees, which have jurisdiction over matters of immigration. this is going to get too un...

Question about visa status. senator sullivan and i wrote a bipartisan letter in mid august urging expanded eligibility for the siv program. i am interested in how you are working to expand eligibility under the existing visa programs to include family members and to support those the u.s. government supported and worked alongside but were not direct employees. i want to start, if i could, mr. secretary, by asking yes or no questions about three groups other senators mentioned. >> sure. >> theres...

0 for the unity of our country. i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdraw, the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, weve talked about it. i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of ...

0 i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdrawal and the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of those reasons was we wa...

0 so i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognized we needed to withdrawal the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, weve talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. and one of those reasons ...

Immigrant visas for afghans who had worked for us and by our side these past 20 years. when we took office, we inherited a program with a 14-step process based on a statutory framework enacted by congress and involving multiple government agencies. and a backlog of more than 17,000 siv applicants. there had not been a single interview in the siv program in kabul for nine months, going back to march of 2020. the program was basically in a stall. within two weeks of taking office, we restarted the...

Depart. we also used this time to significantly speed up the processing of the special immigrant visas for afghans who had worked for us and by our side these past 20 years. when we took office, we inherited a program with a 14 step process based on a statutory framework enacted by congress and involving multiple government agencies and a backlog of more than 17,000 applicants. they had not been a single interview in the siv program in kabul for nine months going back to march of 2020. the progr...