{"id":66504,"date":"2024-08-31T21:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/article\/2024\/aug\/31\/afghan-asylum-seekers"},"modified":"2024-08-31T21:00:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T12:00:35","slug":"they-fled-afghanistan-in-the-us-they-have-freedom-but-fear-a-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66504","title":{"rendered":"They fled Afghanistan. In the US, they have freedom \u2013 but fear a return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the fall of the Taliban, more than 21,000 Afghan evacuees submitted asylum applications; 3,100 were able to extend their temporary protected status through May 2025<\/p>\n<p>Almost three years after Esmatullah Sultani rushed to Kabul\u2019s international airport, at the time besieged by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/taliban-declares-war-is-over-in-afghanistan-as-us-led-forces-exit-kabul\">Taliban<\/a> forces who were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/the-fall-of-kabul-a-20-year-mission-collapses-in-a-single-day\">seizing control<\/a> of Afghanistan, the 24-year-old man walked into a busy neighborhood market near Sacramento, California.<\/p>\n<p>Sultani greeted many of the stallholders, fellow Afghans, and ordered kebabs for lunch in Dari, a language spoken by more than 35 million people in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/article\/2024\/aug\/31\/afghan-asylum-seekers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the fall of the Taliban, more than 21,000 Afghan evacuees submitted asylum applications; 3,100 were able to extend their temporary protected status through May 2025Almost three years after Esmatullah Sultani rushed to Kabul\u2019s international airpor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3668,"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":[46,1084,494,61,44,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-california","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66504","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\/3668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66505,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66504\/revisions\/66505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}