Congress is on track to authorize an additional 12,000 Special Immigrant Visas to keep the Afghan SIV program afloat after concerns that around 8,000 available visas would run out in September 2024. The stay of execution has offered some sense of relief to many of the more than 147,000 Afghans awaiting processing.
With the time clock on the SIV program temporarily reset, a handful of former and current U.S. Army Special Forces personnel are on a mad dash to get the Afghans who served beside them to safety in the United States. While they worry about Taliban kill orders and combat the exhaustion of supporting allies in a post-withdrawal Afghanistan, their most leviathan foe remains the SIV program itself, which has been beset by failures and a lack of
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