After SIV rejection, family reunites and discovers State Department failure

Washington Examiner— The following is part of a series about how the State Department age determinations for a special immigrant visa applicant’s son put him in needless peril for six years. In 2018, a U.S. consular officer told special immigrant visa applicant Wali Akrami that he would have to leave his adult son Waheed in Afghanistan if […]

Washington Examiner—State Department must reopen SIV case to repair six years of separation. The following concludes a series about how State Department age determinations put special immigrant visa applicant Wali Akrami’s son Waheed in needless peril for six years. Afghan refugee Waheed Akrami arrived in Rochester, New York, this month on humanitarian parole after an apparent State Department blunder separated him from his family for six long years. In 2018, […]

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