This information is from the National Security Council.

• This is an historic operation that has spanned the globe, from evacuating those who served with us to third country transit hubs on military air and charter flights in what was the biggest airlift in U.S. history. We evacuated more than 124,000 people, including more than 6,400 American citizens, LPRs, citizens of other countries, and vulnerable Afghans, the majority of whom worked directly with the U.S. on our mission in Afghanistan.

 

• The Department of Defense is providing temporary housing facilities for SIV applicants and other Vulnerable Afghans at eight installations: Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia; Fort Pickett, Virginia; Fort Lee, Virginia; Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico; Fort McCoy, Wisconsin; Fort Bliss, Texas; Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey; and Camp Atterbury, Indiana. From there, each family will be connected with resettlement organization to help them begin their new lives in America.

 

• The majority of the Afghans who will be resettled in the United States in the coming weeks have worked directly with the U.S. on its mission in Afghanistan, including across military, diplomatic, and development efforts – or will be a family member of someone who did. Thousands more of this group worked as journalists, human rights activists, or humanitarian workers and had careers that put them at risk, which makes them eligible for P1 or P2 visas. Many more are family members of American citizens and LPRs.

 

• As part of this process, we are asking Congress to use the short-term CR to provide $6.4 billion needed to enable the success of our multifaceted, historic operation to evacuate, process, and resettle Afghans who worked with us in our two decades in Afghanistan. That funding request will support our overseas efforts and it plans for as many as 65,000 vulnerable Afghans to arrive in the United States by the end of September as part of this fiscal year, and up to 30,000 additional Afghans over the following 12 months. This is in addition to the refugees who will arrive as part of the Refugee Admissions Cap, and has no impact on the refugee cap #.

 

• We know there is bipartisan support for helping Afghan partners who supported us for so long. Our goal as a government is to safely and efficiently welcome these individuals while taking all appropriate safety and public health measures.

 

• We are grateful to the national security professionals who are doing this work and to the resettlement organizations who work tirelessly on behalf of these arriving individuals and others similarly situated. All of us who work on this are also truly moved by the generosity of so many Americans who are volunteering, donating, or otherwise welcoming these Afghans to the United States.