As groups helped Afghan refugees settle into a new life, we've learned through revisiting how our region helped them find a sense of home, even as some fear, it could all be ripped away again.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — It's been two years since the U.S. pulled out of Afghanistan amid chaos at the Kabul airport. When they left, troops took tens of thousands of refugees with them, and Cleveland's been a new home for them as hundreds came to Ohio.
"The airport was the only place where you could survive," said Sahil, an Afghan refugee, through U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants translator Akbar Shenwari. Sahil and his father have been in the U.S. for two years, trying to build that new foundation for their family, but the race against the clock threatens to crumble everything again.Sahil is one of over 70,000 Afghan refugees who came to the United States under humanitarian parole. Darren Hamm, the director of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Cleveland Field Office, said that humanitarian parole is like a permission slip.
"They have 24 months to file to adjust their status for parole to be either re-granted or to achieve some other sort of a pathway, like the legal permanent residency pathway," said Hamm. After almost two years, Sahil's father got a green card, but he is still waiting for his papers to return. He was on his father's application as a child, but during the waiting period, he got too old and had to apply independently.
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