The United States Government has announced a program for newly arrived Afghans to prevent their deportation to Afghanistan and to grant them temporary protection.
Under the program, 72,500 Afghans will receive work and temporary residence permits in the United States.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in a statement on Wednesday that about 2,000 Afghan students, former Afghan government employees and those who entered the United States on tourist visas and did not return to Afghanistan were also in the United States. Accommodation is allowed.
The program will include Afghans who arrived in the United States before March 15 on an evacuation program, according to US media reports. Those who come later are not included in the program for now.
This new program is called Temporary Protected Status, which provides temporary protection to newly arrived Afghans in the United States.
There are also concerns that some of the new arrivals do not have enough documents and are unlikely to be repatriated to Afghanistan.
This is despite the fact that thousands of Afghans have been waiting in Abu Dhabi for the past eight months to be relocated to the United States.
