Posted on 08/23/2021 6:54:55 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
If you are a U.S. citizen, U.S. lawful permanent resident, immigrant visa applicant, or are affiliated with the U.S. government and have received specific instructions to travel to the Hamid Karzai International Airport, follow the instructions you have been given.
If you have begun the SIV or the P1/P2 process, you will be given instructions on next steps. Please understand, however, that this process may take an extended period.
If you are not a part of the above groups, but are seeking to leave Afghanistan and are part of an organized private effort to evacuate, please do not come to the airport until you have received specific instructions to travel to the Hamid Karzai International Airport from our flight organizer.
If you have questions or need to submit additional information, please visit the State Department website or the U.S. Embassy Kabul website for additional details.
If you do not have a verified invitation, you will not be allowed into the airport or on to an evacuation flight.
(Excerpt) Read more at af.usembassy.gov ...
Bureaucratic advice for people in fear of their lives. Typical.
But be sure to wear a mask!
Try to imagine you are an American in Afghanistan and you just received this message from your government.
BTW anyone want to speculate how many private planes are taking off from remote Afghan airstrips and flying their passengers at low altitude into Pakistani airstrips. Suspect that desperation and necessity results in a free market solution for those able to pay the price.
Some numbnuts at State Department emailed blank visas (no name or identifier) to visa applicants. Obviously, the recipient can print off as many as they have ink
So when the embassy moved to the airport why didn’t it go to Baghram instead? At least that way we would have full control over air ops and multiple runways. Or am I over thinking this for Joe?
The Taliban are probably shooting State Department carrier pigeons for food.
;-)
They have full control over the mass media—that is all they care about...
Get the UN to bring US Citizens to the airport.
Why fly into Pakistan when Cutter is only 2 hrs and 35 minutes flying time away?? Pakistan is the nation backing the Taliban and the nitwit state dept knows it. Yet our tax money goes to Pakistan....jackasses in the swamp..
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