Afghanistan Peace CampaignMilitary.com
12 December 2022
The program that grants visas to Afghans who helped the U.S. military during the United States’ longest war is at risk of ending next year after an extension was left out of the annual defense policy bill.
The Special Immigrant Visa, or SIV, program has been included in the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, in recent years. But the compromise version of this year’s defense policy bill that is expected to become law this month left out a one-year extension that had been included in prior iterations.