MSNBC Katy Tur Reports September 13, 2021 18:38:00
Speeding up the part of the special immigrant visas for the afghans who had worked alongside us. when we came into office, we inherited a 14-step process with a statutory process involving congress and other agencies and a backlog of more than 17,000 siv applicants. there had not been a single interview in kabul for nine months going back to march of 2020, and the program was in a stall. within two weeks of taking office, we restarted the interview process in kabul. on february 4th, one of the very first executive orders by president biden directed us to restart that process, and find causes o...