USAID employee is #AbandonedinAghanistan
"I have been working with @USAID for 2.6 years faithfully & paid high cost for being USG... Taliban have taken my family members hostage several times & tried to hunt me during working period by implanting IEDs on way home." thread 1/3
"We are experiencing our toughest days our lives with having no proper foods, medicine, cloth and uncertain and dire destiny. This is what we received from USG in lieu of our Faithful services." - SIV applicant 2/3 #AbandonedinAghanistan
"It is moral obligation for all of the American people not forget their allies in bad days." 3/3 #AbandonedinAghanistan
My source (a SIV) was at the Serena Hotel yesterday He said that Qatar has reps there with “a list from the U.S. State Department.” The agent told him that they are only helping U.S. passport holders. He said they won’t help legal permanent residents (LPR) in Afghanistan. 2/5
Since he is a SIV and doesn’t fall in the categories that Pres. Biden and Secretary of State Blinken are prioritizing, he did not get any help. 3/5
I talk, email and text with people in Afghanistan every day since I got involved on Aug. 28 with this rescue project— at the request of a retired special forces operator who wanted public awareness of the crisis in the country. (3/7)
"The invitation is open for NGOs, for advocates, for members of Congress, for lawmakers to reach out to us if they are familiar with an American in Afghanistan who has not been in touch with us and who may want to leave."- @StateDeptSpox
For American citizens or Green Card holders (LPR) in Afghanistan, call @StateDept at (833) 741-2777 or (606) 260-4379. Or email AfghanistanACS at state dot gov
I know that none of this helps the SIV holders and our Afghan allies who are being targeted by Taliban.
I keep updating this link with any information from the US government for all categories (visa/asylum refugee/family): emilypostnews.com/p/us-governmen…
“I’m a U.S. Citizen and terrified and desperate to leave this country, which is now under the rule of the cruel Taliban,” she wrote to me in the first email
Her brother and sister in law disappeared a month ago.
“There is no information about them, if they are alive or not. So I am left here as a guardian to my nephews.”
She has American passport but needs to get her three nephews with Afghanistan passports out of the country.
The Taliban cut off internet and mobile in Kabul today. IDk the purpose but it terrified the Americans and Afghan allies who were suddenly alone in hiding and cut off from any contact.
An Aghan ally who I email with asked me to share this message:
"Hi Emily,
Pray for your safety and your pen to write the pain of the Afghan people.
Kabul and the resident's lives are in danger day by day.
See what happened today in Kabul.... (1/2)
"The internet signals were cut-off and what’s this terror.
We’re in the big worse situation in life and can’t do anything, we (me & my family) beg you and from your team to please help us to out with a safe passage."(2/2)