{"id":35756,"date":"2021-08-23T19:08:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T10:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/23\/afghans-denied-visas-despite-working-with-australia-to-be-prioritised-in-humanitarian-intake"},"modified":"2021-08-23T19:08:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T10:08:26","slug":"afghans-denied-visas-despite-working-with-australia-to-be-prioritised-in-humanitarian-intake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35756","title":{"rendered":"Afghans denied visas despite working with Australia to be prioritised in humanitarian intake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the workers were refused visas on technicalities such as being contractors rather than direct employees, or not applying in time<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dozens of Afghan nationals who worked with Australia in Afghanistan but missed out on a visa for at-risk employees have been told they will have priority in the broader pool of 3,000 humanitarian places.<\/p>\n<p>The move raises the prospect that some of the humanitarian places <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/19\/australian-government-urged-to-expand-refugee-intake-as-afghans-seek-to-flee-taliban-rule\">announced by the Australian government<\/a> after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban last week could be taken by former interpreters and security guards blocked for the scheme for former employees.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/23\/afghans-denied-visas-despite-working-with-australia-to-be-prioritised-in-humanitarian-intake\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the workers were refused visas on technicalities such as being contractors rather than direct employees, or not applying in timeGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingDozens of Afghan nationals who worked with Australia in Afghani&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,43,645,388,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-taliban"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35757,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35756\/revisions\/35757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}