Overview

• President Trump said on July 20 that he will help Afghans who have been detained in the United Arab Emirates since fleeing Kabul in 2021.
• His administration suspended U.S. refugee resettlement programs in January and ended temporary deportation protections for Afghan nationals in April.
• The UAE agreed in 2021 to host several thousand evacuees after the Taliban takeover, and Canada resettled about 1,000 of them in 2022.
• Nearly 200,000 Afghans have entered the United States under Biden-era admissions before the current halt in processing.
• The number of Afghans still held in the UAE remains unclear, raising concerns over their long-term fate.