Biden Administration Seeks Civilian Feds to Deploy in Helping Relocate Afghan Evacuees
This is where All hands on Deck meets Buttigieg & Biden's talks of creating a Citizen's Corp. The similarity is in the need.
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AUGUST 16, 2021
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Biden Administration Seeks Civilian Feds to Deploy in Helping Relocate Afghan Evacuees
Employee volunteers will go to both domestic and international sites as U.S. struggles to respond to chaotic scenes in Afghanistan.
The Biden administration is soliciting assistance from federal civilian employees as it prepares to handle the relocation of an influx of Afghan nationals after the government there collapsed.
The State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development are seeking Foreign Service Officer and civil service employee volunteers to deploy to domestic and international locations to process arrivals and work on visa applications, according to an internal email sent out on Monday.
The employees would serve on temporary assignments of 60-90 days and deploy to Washington, Dulles International Airport, Fort Lee in Virginia or Qatar to start, though more employees may be asked to “surge locations that may be established as the situation evolves.”
U.S. officials in recent weeks have ramped up efforts to relocate Afghans who provided critical services in support of American military and civilian operations throughout the war and who now may be in danger. Estimates have put the outstanding numbers of individuals qualified for the Special Immigrant Visa program in the tens of thousands.
The Biden administration launched Operation Allies Refuge last month to assist those individuals as the U.S. prepared for its full military withdrawal from Afghanistan, but the timeline and processes for it have been thrown into chaos as the Taliban swiftly took control of the country.
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