Nearly 1,400 Afghans granted emergency visas never made it to Australia
by Daniel Hurst from World news | The Guardian on (#5XVCX)
Senate inquiry calls on government to reinstate 1,398 lapsed humanitarian visas originally granted after Taliban takeover
Nearly 1,400 people in Afghanistan who were issued with emergency visas but never made it to Australia have had those approvals lapse, a Senate inquiry has revealed.
A unanimous committee report on Tuesday warned that the tragic" situation in Afghanistan continues to worsen" since the Taliban took over in August, and said thousands of applicants for Australian humanitarian visas had been left in the dark about progress.
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