State Department must reopen SIV case to repair six years of separation - Washington Examiner

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State Department must reopen SIV case to repair six years of separation - Washington Examiner

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, a State Department interviewer decided that the April 1994 birthdate on Waheed…