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TEHRAN, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Over the past few years, particularly since the U.S. withdrawal in 2018 from the Iran nuclear deal, Iran has suffered from Washingto

US President Joe Biden on Monday congratulated Japan new Prime Minister Kishida Fumio for taking office and said that Washington is looking forward to strengt

US President Joe Biden on Monday congratulated Japan new Prime Minister Kishida Fumio for taking office and said that Washington is looking forward to strengt

Nine months going back to march of 2020. the program was basically in a stall. within two weeks of taking office, we restarted the siv process in kabul. 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 undue delay and find ways to process siv applications more quickly. this spring i directed significant addition at resources to the program. expanding the people in washington processing applications from 10 to 50, doubling the number of adjudicators in kabul in our embassy there. even as many emb...

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...